Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reception Room. The warm praise was not lightly given, nor was it a mere anniversary charity. Looking backward, the members of the China Club could count up many solid achievements for their hands-across-the-sea movement. Items...
This glum and clumsy man, who sometimes seemed to be making animal noises rather than writing prose, is still able to make the reader share his blank sense of pain. The U.S. has never been patient with its pessimists, but to square accounts with a Dreiser, mere optimism is not enough...
There appears to be no question of boxing ever being refused a minor letter as a mere safety precaution. In Harvard's intercollegiate history, with almost no special protective equipment required by the N.C.A.A., the total injuries amounted to: 15 hurt thumbs, 1 cut, 1 deviated septum, I sprained ankle (in practice), and zero broken noses...
...such as Jerry's family met in a conclave over his possible marriage, and Chayefsky can orchestrate it-and Joshua Logan conduct it-with precise, phonographic humor. But the strong point of the playwright becomes the weak point of the play: the small talk and small talkers seem mere padding that not so much interrupts a vibrant story as substitutes...
Quality Control. In El Paso, Charles Steen refused to plead guilty to having stolen a mere Cadillac, had the charge changed to read "Cadillac Coupe de Ville," explained that he never bothered with anything but the best...