Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world-shaking scientific discovery has yet come out of Soviet Russia. But the visiting scientists noted with surprise that throughout the war Russian scientists, unlike those in the U.S. and Britain, had devoted their main effort to long-range, fundamental research. Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through sheer volume of effort, already led the world in some fields of study (e.g., geology and soil science). In Moscow, they found famed Physicist Peter Kapitza presiding over one of the world's best-equipped electronics laboratories-where a photoelectric cell ten times as good...
...single issue of the New York Times readers wrote: "It is a stain upon our national life. . . ." "It is simply mass murder, sheer terrorism. . . ." "Let us . . . dump the whole thing into the Atlantic or Pacific . . . man is too frail to be entrusted with such power...
...time, Molotov's proposal was widely misinterpreted as sheer rudeness. Even Stettinius and Eden opposed it on the wrong grounds: they simply thought that it would snarl up the whole conference procedure. Not until later did Molotov's opponents realize that in forcing him to back down-as he did-they had won the opening round in a long battle for free discussion...
...Hayek tries to show that the economic system can and ought to be separated from political domination, and that only an economic system of laissez-faire is worth having. Perhaps the book's chief fallacy, though it's only one example of sheer nonsense out of hundreds, is that Nazism was the fruit of socialism, which is the craziest perversion I've ever come across...
...sheer, concentrated fury of construction, there is nothing like Iwo. When the Japanese held it, they put in almost 20,000 combat troops and only 3,000 or 4,000 construction workers. With U.S. forces holding it, Iwo still has combat troops, but they are inconspicuous. They are lost in the legions of builders: the Navy's Construction Battalions (Seabees) who will fight, if need be, for what they build, and the Army's aviation engineers. Nowhere in the world has so much construction machinery been turned loose in so tiny a compass...