Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collar worker, a clerk, for instance, at the Banque de I'Indochine. But slim, delicate, bronzed Monique Izzi, daughter of a half-French, half-Italian father and a Cambodian mother, had quite another idea. Better, she thought, a real prince, even a Cambodian one with concubines, than a mere wage-earning European. A fragile and lovely center of interest in a bikini bathing suit by the pool at Le Cercle Sportif, Monique gave the cold shoulder to all European suitors and bided her time...
Along with feeding Actress Walker her lines, Margaret Phillips plays the other wife in the frillier style of high comedy. But Actress Walker contrives higher comedy: no mere grande dame, she is someone who could make a grande dame cower...
Ridgway claims, and most of the high Army brass agree, that we need a large Army, equipped with both atomic and "conventional" weapons. This idea cannot be dismissed as obvious or as mere self-seeking on the part of the generals, although present Administration policy envisions a greater and greater dependence on weapons of mass-destruction and a smaller and smaller Army. Appealing as this may be to high-ranking Air Force officers and prospective draftees, it means inevitably a diminishing ability to handle the possible "brush-fire" wars that threaten sporadically in the Near and Far East. In other...
...predictions of the Chinese Communists that they go could provoke us plenty before we would throw an atomic bomb at them. Ridgway's answer is an adequate, up-to-date, highly mobile Army, which, if necessary, can fight and win localized wars. Ridgway and his followers believe that the mere existence of such an Army will deter would-be aggressors from adventures that might end in defeat and humiliation for the Party...
With its striding rages and vivid madness, Welles's Lear scarcely buttressed the widespread belief that the part is unactable; even with an injured ankle, Welles was never a mere "old gentleman tottering about with a walking stick." But both as actor and director, Welles slighted Lear's character and Lear's significance, did far too little with Shakespeare's poetry. Any number of moments lacked their sovereign power to move-and not least from scanting Shakespeare's sovereign powers of language...