Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senators Knowland, McCarthy, Millikin and Malone are not trying to grab the party leadership from him. Each goes his own way, seeks his own following. A mere hint of Ike's own reluctance to run will have little effect on such men, even though they know that Ike's unavailability might cost the party millions of votes. But an Eisenhower withdrawal that was attributed in part to the opposition inside his own party might have a drastic effect on party workers, who, after all, like to win elections. These party stalwarts could turn and blast forever the careers...
...previous season there were only 386, and ten years before a mere 77, according to a survey by the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Opera News...
...Kreton notes "the wonderful, primitive assumption that all strangers are hostile." By this time it is clear that Kreton's people would not have the earth if it were handed to them on a platinum flying saucer. Some earthmen noted early in the visit that Kreton was a mere eccentric. Otherwise, what was he doing returning "to the Dark Ages of this insignificant planet?" But his visit proved an illuminating spoof, and British Actor Cyril Ritchard proved a fine spoofer...
...course impossible, quite impossible," is the sort of thing British intellectuals say of Percy Wyndham Lewis. Such comments are usually accompanied by a slight quavering of the speaker's shoulders, as if these still bore the unhealed scars of a Wyndham Lewis drubbing. To many, the mere mention of Lewis' name evokes a hefty figure, dressed in a broad black hat and sweeping black coat, glaring sternly at humanity through formidable glasses. Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls Lewis sitting at a restaurant table back in 1919. "Remember...
Human beings, Harding argues, are divided into two races, "one destructive and the other creative." The destructive has always won in the end, Harding believes, but that is no excuse for the historian to follow suit and write histories which are mere rosters of destructive triumphs. For some day, after all, the victory may go to the creative. Self-exiled Rene Harding is a "creative" man who is doomed to be defeated by "destructive" fellow men. His conquerors are not little Karl Marxes; they are average men who are stubbornly determined to lead average lives and to cold-shoulder...