Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarrassed by power. The Soviets did nothing of the sort. By the early 1980s the U.S.S.R. will probably have caught up with us in almost every modern military category. Their research into new weapons of terror, though now behind ours, will perhaps exceed our own because of the sheer concentration of effort...
...script is riddled with holes. He asks us to believe that Drew would record a make-or-break audition song in a coin-operated "Record-O-Graph" booth, without musical accompaniment, just because his cassette machine was broken. Later the hero lands a star gig at a disco by sheer happenstance...
...massive Brown's Ferry nuclear plant destroyed safety systems, filled the plant's control room with dense smoke, and threatened a meltdown. Nuclear engineers from the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the plant, have stated that a potentially catastrophic radiation release from Brown's Ferry was averted "by sheer luck...
Lemmon, through the sheer integrity of his playing −no cute stuff, no obvious plays for sympathy −is outstanding as an essentially lonely man who has built his life around his dials and gauges, and then learns that they have been programmed from the start to deceive...
Welcoming banners festooned Shanghai, celebrating the Boston Symphony's first concert. The program included Verdi and Mozart, but it was Ozawa's showy reading of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique that drew an ovation from the normally reserved Chinese. At times the sheer commotion of the visit threatened to engulf any real musical results. The center of excitement was the conservatory. When Violinist Joseph Silverstein wandered into a studio where Situ Dahong, 18, was practicing, the room was quickly jammed by other students, teachers and members of the press, including a CBS camera crew in full armor...