Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what we'd like to do," said Dean Acheson, representing the U.S. at his last big international conference. Without admitting it, the 42 ministers abandoned the goals set in their famed Lisbon Conference last February, shrugging off their talk of 70 divisions by 1953 as mere "window dressing" designed at the time to impress the U.S. Congress. The ministers cut in half the soldiers' urgent request for $420 million to continue construction of NATO airfields, radar network and jet-fuel pipelines. And although all NATO nations were pledged in advance to increase their arms budgets...
...museum's annual report for 1933, Director Taylor explained what he was trying to do: "[The museum] has ceased to be a mere gathering place for a few persons of special knowledge, and has become an important factor in the life of the city . . . The people of Worcester are going through deep waters, [and] the museum can help them to weather the storm." One of Taylor's first actions was to tell the city about its museum. Then he started buying the kind of master pieces the public would like-a 6-ft. Egyptian bas-relief...
...acting in Seventh Heaven, a gold-plated Oscar statuette was worth about $150. The value of most gewgaws has risen since then, but Oscars have outstripped them all. Hollywood publicists have long since discovered that these "noncommercial" citations for artistic merit have a specific box-office value: a mere Oscar nomination can add about $100,000 to a movie's gross. An actual award, if well exploited, may be worth...
...most Washington newsmen, the New York Times's Bureau Chief Arthur Krock is the "Mr. Politics" of the U.S. press. But not to Krock himself; he has his own Mr. Politics. Every election night in the Times city room, Krock, 66 and a veteran of a mere 25 years on the Times, turns for guidance to a real oldtimer. "When will you call it, Jim?" asks Krock in his election night ritual. Only when 76-year-old James A. (for Andrew) Hagerty calls it does Krock write his story naming the election winner. "I've always followed...
...best temperance-tract tradition, a mere glass and a half of red wine starts Erwin Sommer, a fortyish wholesale produce dealer, on the road to an alcoholic inferno. Uneasy over business losses and unhappy with his martinet wife, he soon regards the bottle as man's best friend. He cheats to get contracts, he lies to his wife, and he pays court to a blowzy waitress whom he blearily crowns "The Queen of Alcohol...