Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...healthier than the global nail-biting that had preceded it. Chronic crisis and creeping frustration had produced some ugly effects in the U.S., the most conspicuous being the emotions roused pro and con a weightless opportunist named Joe McCarthy. Now McCarthy had receded to a mere smudge on the political landscape. His decline is part of the restoration of the U.S. picture to its proper perspective...
...maligned Upper House of Parliament (in lolanthe), Her Majesty's Lords have had less and less to do with the making of British law or policy. Back in 1911, testy Commoner David Lloyd George, with the help of his King, cut the Lords' veto power to a mere delaying action. Six years ago, even their right to delay was curtailed...
...California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because his client was never served with papers in the case.) Among the highlights listed in the Kaisers' complaint: 1) all the draperies had to be replaced because...
...Reykjavik Isaac Stern wowed his audience-he had to repeat his recital in the 800-seat theater - but his success was a mere icicle on an iceberg, compared with the Russian effort. Every year the Soviet Union dispatches culture delegations containing four to ten fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...
...expenditures either by the Congress or by the executive branch." The commission recommends that the Budget Bureau apply the accounting and financial methods of U.S. business to its job, wants it to pay more attention to budgeting yearly Government expenditures on a strict cost basis, and less to preparing mere estimates of proposed expenditures...