Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, the Dominican Republic civil war in 1965 and the 1969 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras. Says Diederich: "The Nicaraguan civil war, which saw the cold-blooded execution of one American journalist [ABC's Bill Stewart], surpassed them all in sheer danger...
...took a fair amount of brass and something like genius to transcend these limitations. Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz and Mickey Rooney in Boys' Town did it by the sheer force of their gift. But to ward the close of World War II, styles changed...
Like far too many figures of authority in Washington and elsewhere, Carter utterly lacks the sheer exuberance of power. Of course it is one of the perversities of Americans that they always want what they do not have: a moral President when they have an immoral one; a cunningly, enthusiastically and effectively amoral President when they have a moral one. Thus, in Carter's reign, there has developed a rather strange and selective nostalgia for the wheeler-dealer manipulations of Lyndon Johnson, and even, here and there, for the darkling touch of Richard Nixon. But when Americans thought that they...
...Muang-Thai, which means land of the free. Thailand, in fact, is the only country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by a Western power. For centuries the country has managed to survive the ambitions of would-be occupiers through a combination of diplomatic guile, compromise, opportunism and sheer luck...
What the switchboard operators heard was definitely not mellow-speak. Not laid back either. It was sheer, white-hot anger. The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and half a dozen other papers had yanked Garry Trudeau's Pulitzer-prizewinning comic strip Doonesbury, and thousands of irate devotees wanted to know...