Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army paid employees, and a handful of unpaid doctors and dentists. Around the world, preaching salvation in 102 languages, there are only some 125,000 all told in the hosts of the late General William Booth. But like Joshua's army at Jericho, they multiply their strength by sheer ubiquity. Their coffee-&-doughnuts campaign in World War I, which so impressed U.S. doughboys, was carried on by fewer than 300 men and "Sals...
Perhaps the most damaging repercussion of all will be the sheer volume of people antagonized by the Bingham statement. Harold Stassen and the University of Pennsylvania are answering the alledged slur on their athletic purity. The Yale A. A. released a calm but firm reply to the statement that the Big Three contests didn't mean much any more. No doubt, Princeton, as the holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced...
...everybody was as happy about the whole thing as the Sundays' proprietors and their readers in the United Kingdom (pop. 50,000,000) seemed to be. In the House of Commons recently, Socialist M.P. John Haire rose to deplore the increase of journalistic "speculation, sex, sensationalism and sheer lies," and Dr. John R. Rees, one of Britain's most eminent psychiatrists, stigmatized some of the Sundays, which he did not specify, as "chambers of horrors...
...Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, now president of the Council of Europe's Assembly, who had hitherto been mild on the subject of Leopold, called the Leopold-Eyskens agreement "sheer political folly." If the King got less than 55% of the votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...
...wasn't just sheer weight of numbers that did it, either. Marching about 125 pieces--less than half the number fielded a week ago for the anniversary--the band exhibited its customary proficiency in concert formation...