Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finals of the National Intercollegiates at Hethenway yesterday, Ralph Howe defeated Bob Hetherington 3-2 in an awesome display of sheer ability by both players. Earlier in the day, Hetherington had upset second-seeded (behind Howe) Jim Zug of Princeton 3-2, and Howe had downed third-seeded Don Mills of Trinity in straight games...
Bobby and Ethel arrived at Tempelhof Airport in the midst of a cold, stinging snowstorm. Yet more than 100,000 West Berliners lined the streets, repeatedly holding up the motorcade by the sheer press of their numbers. At Potsdamer Platz, Bobby glared through the strands of barbed wire that are part of the Wall in that section of divided Berlin. On the East Berlin side, a few Vopos scuttled out of sight. Otherwise, East Berlin appeared empty-and dead. "This," said Bobby, echoing the reaction of every first visitor, "is even more shocking than I imagined it would be. Unbelievable...
...lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in Manhattan. Saarinen decided that the only way to best the master was to be even purer. He took as his clue the words of pioneer Skyscraper Designer Louis Sullivan, "a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." The idea of purity so ruled his design that CBS had to buy two adjoining lots for a utility building, rather than allow the lines of the tower to be interrupted by truck entrances; supplies will...
...largest failure of the National Observer is that it has not its own stated aim. Its opening editorial says, ". . . there are times when everyone feels inundated with news. What is hard to find in the is understanding. . . . The problem of most readers is to find their way through the sheer bulk. . . . In a weekly newspaper the news does not come in bits and pieces. . . . This time to sift the news, to put it in perspective, to present it in a manageable package, has always been the great advantage of the weekly paper...
...cast, in fact, resuscitates a good bit of the show that would otherwise be so much noise. Mr. Levin and Miss Fay save the shelter scene with some inspired mugging, and Mr. Dale rescues the pathetically bad song, "Unrequited Love," by sheer force of will...