Word: sheerly
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Record Crop. A major reason for the change is the aging of the postwar baby boom. As the babies reached school age in the '50s and early '60s, they created the teacher shortage by their sheer numbers. Now they have moved through college and produced a record crop of teachers. This year the new academic job seekers are being joined by refugees from the tight private job market...
Still, Cox is not to be discounted, because there is a prevailing opinion that Harvard needs such a man: A distinguished older president who through sheer prestige and demeanor might hold the university together for five or six more years while it straightens itself...
Barbirolli's conducting was an experience in sheer physical grace. The emotive power of his body seemed at times to be equal to the emotive power of the music he conducted, as every muscle of his body, and every inch of himself to the very tips of his hair, seemed to involve itself in the music. He was not a histrionic conductor, as Giulini so often is, but he was a man deeply involved in his music. He seemed never to analyze a piece of music in terms of the individual notes and phrases, but as an emotional experience...
Still, Cox is not to be discounted, because there is a prevailing opinion that Harvard needs such a man: A distinguished older president who through sheer prestige and demeanor might hold the university together for five or six more years while it straightens itself...
More important, sheer barbarism is presented in anti-septic and absurdly euphemistic language. This is clearest in Huntington's discussion of the "urban-rural gap" in Vietnam. He notes with pride the steps that have been made toward urbanization: "The U. S., however, has been bridging the gap through two means: (a) inducing substantial migration of people from the countryside to the cities and (b) promoting economic development in rural areas and marketing and transportation links-between them and the cities...