Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, living in mountainous, snow-covered country well suited to defense, and with some 35,000 supposedly modern soldiers sent to help them, had been conquered by an army of perhaps 85,000 skilled, swift-moving, hard-hitting fighters, and some 500 indefatigable warplanes. As a military feat of sheer nerve, though not of power, this conquest outclassed the 18-day subjugation of flat Poland's 34,000,000 people by 1,000,000 Germans and as many more Russians. Even after discounting Norse innocence, lack of equipment, treachery within, discounting also British amateurishness and unpreparedness, the German campaign...
...Sheer sacrifice was what the German Navy's performance really boiled down to. Winston Churchill was not merely rhetorical when, after only three days of fighting, he called the Nazi Navy already "deeply mutilated" in respect to cruisers, "a mere counter to be cast away for a particular operation...
...White House, the White Book was described as sheer propaganda, to be taken not with one or two, but with three grains of salt. "With even more salt," echoed Mr. Bullitt, before leaving by Clipper for France. Said Count Potocki in Washington: "I have never had any conversations with Ambassador Bullitt on America's participation in the war." Said Secretary of State Hull: "I may say most emphatically that neither I nor any of my associates in the Department of State have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence...
...these blessings Knott County mountaineers thank aging Alice Lloyd-now 63, hale & hearty in her sweater-&-skirt director's uniform. But for all their education, there is still life in the mountaineers of Caney Valley. Out of sheer high spirits, on moonlight, moonshine Saturday nights they occasionally put a bullet or two through the gateway sign, pepper the headmistress's house with slugs...
Lesson No. 2 from Finland was the cumbersomeness in rough country of divisions which are over-mechanized and equipped as occupying troops instead of for sheer attack and holding. The elaborate Russian caravans which sought to penetrate Finland's forested southeast corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...