Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thriving World Peace Through Law Center in Washington, which is scheduled to be moved next month to permanent headquarters in Geneva. By mobilizing 100,000 lawyers across the world in a campaign of research and publicity, Rhyne hopes to persuade politicians that international law is no myth, that the sheer necessities of global trade and travel are giving birth to hundreds of practical agreements (in aviation, shipping, tariffs, etc.) that can and should lead to "an overall world judicial system...
High in the Swiss Alps, near the little village of Saas-Almagell, engineers and workmen have labored for five years on the Mattmark dam. To visitors, the site of the work camp looked dangerous, for above it rose a sheer mountain wall, topped by the icy lip of the six-mile-long Allalin glacier. But the workmen on the dam were assured it was by no means as menacing as it looked...
...looking out their windows swooned to see a cowboy there. A butler tapped him on the shoulder, an elevator whirred him up to a penthouse, a golden door opened into a large apartment carpeted from wall to wall with soft brown fur. Madame was wearing scanties covered by a sheer black negligee. Quivering with desire, she threw herself onto the soft floor. He took her. The butler handed him a signed check on which the amount had been left for him to fill in as he chose...
...bosses then refused to accept Shastri's rationing plan, and India had to double its normal import of grain from abroad -expanding valuable foreign exchange in the process. The U.S. grain supply to India reached 6,650,000 tons - two shiploads a day - and saved the country from sheer starvation...
...Sheer hyperbole, strictly speaking. La Paz, Bolivia, for instance, is 12,400 ft. above sea level and has more than ten nightclubs...