Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea showed that captured U.S. servicemen could be forced by torture, by the threat of torture, and sometimes by the mere promise of creature comforts, to hurt their fellow prisoners and their country. This came as a shock to the U.S. public; it came as even more of a shock to the nation's military leaders, and it was inevitable that they should determine to do something about...
...ever since Ecuador became a nation in 1830. In 1942, after the last serious gunfighting between the two countries, a six-nation committee in Rio awarded Peru some three-fourths of the null jungle territory under dispute. The Ecuadorians have been fretting about the decision ever since, and the mere approach of a Peruvian patrol to the poorly demarcated border is enough to set off invasion alarms. During the past year, nerves on both sides have tautened further as the two countries added to their military power. Last week, just before the latest Ecuadorian cry of alarm, Peru announced that...
...Doctors or Policemen? A psychiatrist named Walther Spielmeyer denounced the use of psychoanalysis on Dora as "mental masturbation." Jones himself reports: "I was forced to resign a neurological appointment in London for making inquiries into the sexual life of patients." By 1910 the mere mention of Freud's theories was enough to start the chairman of a Hamburg congress. Herr Professor Wilhelm Weygandt. banging his fist and shouting: "This is not a topic for discussion at a scientific meeting; it is a matter for the police...
...would be a curious trick of fate if this little man [Freud's half brother]-he is said to have ended up as a peddler -had through his mere existence proved to have fortuitously struck the spark that lit the future Freud's determination to trust himself alone, to resist the impulse to believe in others more than in himself, and in that way to make imperishable the name of Freud...
...unfortunate that Fanny attached no importance whatever to her writing, and that she accepted, though with injured feelings, Louis' good-natured taunt that she had the "soul of a peasant." A mere four years with Fanny Stevenson's steady eye leaves the reader wanting more...