Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives a tinker's damn about this Hong Kong? It is TIME that makes itself revoltingly obnoxious by always butting in and trying to "protect" this mere island when it is really none of its damn business. If you guys are so crazy about defending the place, why don't you move over there...
...U.S.British agreement on some world trouble spots, especially on the Communist threat to the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 16). But this effort will probably be sterile unless the talks are permeated by the symbolic meaning of Eden in Washington. Diplomatist George Kennan to the contrary, international relations are not mere projections of practical national-power interests ; foreign affairs are also a quest for justice, in which each nation is indeed its brother's keeper, and the sovereignty of each is limited by a "decent respect" for the moral judgments of the others...
...performance in 50 basic industrial commodities, Russia's planned economy is now second only to the U.S.'s booming free economy, and growing twice as fast (having so much farther to go). For the first time, Russia used hard figures, not meaningless percentages. Russian steel production (a mere 4,300,000 tons in 1928) was 45.2 million tons last year, and the 1960 target is 68.3 million tons. Though this falls far short of U.S. 1955 output of 106 million tons, it appears to surpass that of France and Germany combined. The Soviet Union plans...
Quacks have always preyed on those who believe that banishing the malaise cures the malady. But to doctors nowadays, concerned with basic cause and cure, "mere relief of a symptom looks petty and the problem . . . seems a bore...
...Sharaku drew him, the little athlete weighed 180 Ibs. and boasted a 47-inch waistline. Sharaku showed him charging belly-on toward the spectator and squinting in delighted anticipation of the coming collision with his opponent. Daidozan never fulfilled his large promise, for he quit the ring at a mere...