Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take sixteen weeks of basic probably in infantry (Fort Dix, N.J. or Fort Jackson, S.C.), Armor (Fort Knox, Ky, or Fort Hood, Tex.), or Field Artillery (Fort Dix. N.J. or Fort Sill, Okla.). The choice is made by officers whom you will never see and on the basis of mere caprice, so there is no way of influencing your branch of service...
...sports-writers again labelled the Dodgers as the best National League team since the old Cardinals, a mistake they had made the previous year. But in a slightly sickening (for the Ebbetts Field fans) four weeks, Brooklyn again disproved the hypothesis by blowing a 10-game lead to a mere three...
White Sox pitcher Joe Dobson, having one of his best seasons, allowed the Tribe a mere six hits, while supported with fourteen by his teammates. The Indians, with three games to go, are now three games behind the Yankees on the losing side. If the Yanks win only half of their remaining six, Cleveland can only gain a tie by winning all three games...
...A.S.D.E. the runways show up as black bands outlined by radar reflections from the knee-high grass that grows on their margins. Airplanes moving along them are not mere shapeless blobs; they are sharply defined bright bars, and experienced radarmen can even tell one type of plane from another. A car or truck shows up as a smaller rectangle, and a man who steps out of one shows as a bright dot. Any obstacle on a runway, such as a misguided truck or a disabled airplane, is spotted at a glance...
...Sandwich on End? The U.N. buildings have roused the liveliest architectural debate in years. Some architectural critics have called the Secretariat everything from a "magnified radio console" to "a sandwich on end." Old Revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright snorted that the design is mere "skyscraperism-a sinister emblem for world power." Said Critic Lewis (The Culture of Cities) Mumford: "A Christmas package wrapped in cellophane ... manticism." a triumph of irrelevant ro Architect Harrison is used to having these stones shied at his glass houses. And he is a pragmatist. "If in five years," says he, "somebody finds a way to build...