Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised Jânio in his victory speech: "I will protect and defend the working class and the poor. There will be one weight and one measure...
...miserable weather conditions cut the spectators down to a mere dozen or so, but they all cheered loudly for Yale's first finisher, fourth place Marty Duckworth. Duckworth battled with the Crimson's Paul for two miles, finally, edging him with 200 yards...
...oodles of pearls, Helene paraded into a Manhattan court to tell a sordid tale of domestic dolor. Arpels had turned out to be a 24-carat gem dandy, complained Helene, who married him in 1933, but his diamonds were another girl's best friend. The other woman: "a mere nightclub singer named Juliana Larson." After acting distracted last year in France, testified Helene, Arpels announced to her that "he didn't have much time to live and wanted to spend it with Juliana." Shortly after that, Helene, idly rummaging through Arpels' pockets, discovered a shockingly tender letter...
...breathed easier after the Supreme Court in 1911 adopted the flexible "rule of reason," which held that only "unreasonable restraints on commerce" violated the Sherman Act. The question was further clarified when the Supreme Court, in its 1920 decision on U.S. Steel, ruled that "the law does not make mere size . . . or the existence of unexerted power an offense." But in the Depression-ridden '30s, when "economic royalists" were fair game, the Democratic Administration again held that mere size and power were the dangers. The Supreme Court, in its 1946 American-Tobacco decision, agreed, ruling that monopoly exists when...
...events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward as a bull calf, Lett's uncluttered sense of scene and even-paced...