Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along the snake's digestive tract, it makes a bulge, just as the boom babies are causing a traveling bulge in the economy and social life of the country. Some social scientists, for example, attribute the student riots and other disruptions of the late '60s to the sheer numbers of adolescents who abruptly appeared on the scene...
...public service. There is no evidence that he tried to enrich himself at public expense. He pursued power to be free to do what he regarded as good works. Caro asserts, and the record seems to bear out, that power eventually became an end in itself. But, a sheer arrogance and the difficulty of getting things done aside, the book never explains...
...trend toward coeducation really began during World War II out of nothing less than sheer necessity on Harvard's part. The war had so depleted Harvard enrollment that the merging of most educational facilities became the only pragmatic financial arrangement for Harvard...
...exact effects of American strategy overseas may never be completely known. World War III-which 74% of Americans once believed would inevitably occur within a decade after 1947-has not occurred. But who can say for sure if that was the result of courageous U.S. policy, Russian prudence or sheer chance? What the cold war did to the U.S. can be more easily measured, especially since the partisanship that once labeled as un-American any evenhanded inquiry into the subject has now faded...
Court Line, originally a shipping and shipbuilding concern, expanded into travel in the mid-'60s and built up its own twelve-plane airline; within the past year it unwisely bought two financially shaky travel firms. The company pursued sheer volume, booking tours so cheaply that they often yielded only $1.25 profit per traveler. When rising airline fares-and economic stagnation caused many Britons to cut back on their vacation plans, costs overtook prices and failure became inevitable, despite the government's rescue attempt...