Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into the enchanted circle of million-copy smashes. The song itself has keen likened by at least one fan magazine writer to the sounds a drunken Turk might make shouting down a well. The fact is that Clooney did as much...
...October 1944, when the U.S. wanted to believe that peace could be permanently achieved by the mere setting up of a United Nations organization, Congresswoman Luce gave the problem a fresh appraisal. For the New York Herald Tribune Forum she traced the history-and weak points-of Utopian peace plans, from a Chinese try in 546 B.C. up to the League of Nations. "Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said she. In May 1945, long before the U.S. got around to a foreign policy of "containing" Communism, she warned: "If we want to stay...
...spite of the departing ladies, love's labor is not entirely lost: the swains may seek them again in a twelvemonth. Here at least Love's Labour's Lost is the true text of Shakespeare, even if elsewhere a mere pretext for shenanigans...
Stahmann is looking beyond the mere marketing of frozen geese, is already figuring out new commercial uses for feathers and down (e.g., a goosedown powder puff), expects to sell a lot of down for army bedrolls. Eventually he thinks he may make more out of the feathers than the geese...
Naturally, when the Foreign Relations Committee approved the appointment, everyone wondered how the Post would mend its shettered innuendos. They were not disappointed by a mere acknowledgement. It was "a left-handed endorsement, despite the 15-0 vote." The Post had not deserted its ship. Gathering together its largest type forms, it followed the confirmation into the halls of the Senate...