Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue, if any, between John Costello's Fine Gael and Dev's own party were largely sentimental ones dating back to the days of the Civil War, when Dev and the Men of Destiny held out for total independence while Fine Gael was willing to settle for mere home rule under Britain. In order to govern at all, Lawyer Costello (accent on the first syllable) will have to join a coalition with the Labor Party, which favors even more government spending than...
...nothing else, was better than ever last year. In France and Spain, growing conditions were perfect, the grapes were larger, and the boys who mash the grapes had bigger feet. But the wine consumers have not risen to meet this new challenge, which, according, to U.N. statistics, involves a mere 636 million gallons of surplus wine. Ready for sale, this surplus wine would fill just slightly more than two-and-a-half billion bottles. This trifling amount of wine would be easy work for any but the present group of apathetic wine drinkers...
...Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler, stands little chance of being ratified, but it scampered breezily through the Senate. Less than 90 minutes of committee hearings were held on it last January. Last week's debate, in which only six Senators took part, consumed a mere 2½ hours. Democrat Hennings lamented to a nearly empty chamber that haste does not make good law. But the Senate, uncharacteristically eager to vote, passed the Butler amendment...
Trucks Before Men. Dr. Page likes to quote Jonathan Edwards' dictum of 200 years ago: "Man is entirely, perfectly and unspeakably different from a mere machine." However, he says, "in all too many American corporations, management may be aware of this but, for some inexplicable reasons, devotes more concern to the machine than the man. It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
...Ambassador-Extraordinary Jim Calan, an oil tycoon who has come to London to drive a hard bargain with British diplomats. Shrewd, tough, likable, religious, Jim would have married Katie O'Higgins had she not refused to become a mere...