Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pledge Fulfilled. Since 1946, no French Premier had dared to suggest that draftees should be sent to fight in the jungles and paddies of Indo-China; only last weekend the Socialists had reaffirmed their stand against it. Mendèes went beyond mere suggestion. Already, he went on, preparations were under way. Troops were getting inoculations and tropical uniforms; permission had been obtained from the NATO command. Said Mendèes: "The national interest demands that the vote be already obtained when I hand in my resignation." It would be the last act of his government, he declared. "Thus...
...contemporary art at the Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an "artistic debacle." Wrote the Vatican critic: "This is a demonstration of the breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton. "It is sad," the article concluded, "that in Catholic Venice, full...
...Linder of Hazlehurst, commissioner of agriculture: let the state support segregated schools and perhaps give educational grants to persons willing to attend "mixed" schools. But such persons ("a mere lunatic fringe," according to Linder) might well be required to take a psychiatric test first...
...Official reason for the decision: "In order to expedite the investigation and to develop the facts in an orderly and impartial manner." But Ohio's Democrat Wayne Hays had another version: "In view of the fact that the case presented by the staff of the committee and the mere handful of witnesses was so utterly nonsensical and without basis in fact that it fell of its own weight, it seems to me that the action taken today was the least embarrassing way that Mr. Reece and his staff could get offstage...
...this era where mere factual knowledge frequently serves as an index of intelligence, the University has symbolized the broad intellectual maturation that learning should...