Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is true, Miller said, because the social process of today, the industrial society, presents to man a force that is "no longer man, no longer human, but sheer power, imperative pure and simple and the individual cannot react to force as he does to an individual...
Whether the leaks were psychological or not, none of these courses would be sheer bluff. All are entirely in the realm of the possible. By letting the potentialities be known, the Administration's policy planners-like the cops on the hill-run the best chance of slowing up the enemy without having to use the weapons...
...risks, no matter what its policies. "While retaliatory power is one strong deterrent to a would-be aggressor, another powerful deterrent is defensive power, [and] total defensive strength must include civil-defense preparedness. Because we have incontrovertible evidence that Soviet Russia possesses atomic weapons, this kind of protection becomes sheer necessity...
...crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on the icy course, the sled hit a 50 m.p.h. clip as Endrich steered through the tricky "labyrinth"-a series of 16 intricate curves. Pounding into the Bavarian Curve, a 180° turn with a 15-foot sheer wall of ice where Sweden's Rudolph Odenrich was killed two years ago, Endrich steered the sled toward the rim for maximum speed...
...sled went, runners chattering at the whistling 60 m.p.h. clip. Gathered at the turn, 500-odd spectators - Mrs. Endrich among them-watched breathlessly for the precise change in course that would send the bobsled whipping down the sheer far side of the turn. The change was never made. The sled shot up and over the rim of the curve, and crashed heavily into a clump of firs...