Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of segregated facilities in Cape Town and insisting on apartheid. Grudgingly, the city ran a few trial Jim Crow buses and set up a Jim Crow public toilet on a main street. Protested a nonwhite city councilman: "Why do we do these terrible things at the mere hint of pressure from the Nationalists?" Last week the pressure became more than a hint. In the face of new threats from the provincial governor to act if the city did not, Cape Town's white councilmen regretfully capitulated, reluctantly started work on the segregation of park benches and city beaches...
...advertising revenues of Canadian editions of foreign, i.e., U.S., magazines.* In his budget speech announcing the levy. Finance Minister Walter Harris made it clear that the tax was not intended to produce revenue, but was designed to cripple or halt the U.S.-owned publications, and thus force mere Canadians to advertise in and read Canadian magazines...
...only by "corrective exercises" at home but "on-the-job grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing...
Aided by "king-size" washcloths, spinach diets, "pedicure tools" and "Queen Bee Cream," she reduces the large, wholesome hips to mere skin and bone, prunes away the buxom midriff, buttresses the sags and fills the open pores. What's left is vigorously sprayed from head to toe with enchanting "fragrances" and left to its own devices, e.g., "If you have an old coffee grinder, fill it with ivy." Only the most hardened men ("see also husbands") could get through this book without "hands, shaking from nervousness...
...reason is that though the Caroline novels are blatantly aphrodisiacal in intent, they are more than mere buff in content. Author Cecil Saint-Laurent is a serious historian as well as an able hack...