Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito, in a torrent of aggrievement, wondered: "Why such fierce attacks from the Chinese? Do they perhaps want to show their monolithic character and the strength of their 600 million by making Yugoslavia, at their mere shout, disappear as if it never existed?" Tito guessed that there was a quite different reason for the attacks, "but they dare not say this...
They were indeed mere minutes. It was about 11:30 p.m. when the biggest wave crested. Straight up into the air went the raft, and into the sea once more the men were flung. Mays got back first, then Strzelecki, and then Fleming. They called for Meredith, but they heard nothing, saw nothing...
...Moss has thought up a few nice epigrams ("Drosophila are so Mendelian"; "Promiscuity is the thief of time"), and various pleasant conceits. But he has also been fecund in pseudo-epigrams ("A doctor without a disease is like a poet without a passion--a mere strummer"), and little tepid fancies (an inefficient, effeminate angel who receives celestial rebukes from the sound-effects man whenever he says, "Oh, God.") Mr. Moss writes in a tone of unflagging, unconvincing elegance, less Wilde than woolly...
...Visit. A rich witch offers to buy the life of a man who once wronged her -for a mere billion dollars. This surrealist, symbol-clogged but fascinating fable may be Alfred Lunt's and Lynn Fontanne's last visit to Broadway...
Discussing his visit to the Soviet Union last summer, Billington noted that one of the chief aims of leading scientists and technicians "is to get rid of the dreary, somber, Moscovite style of architecture." This is not a mere detail, he explained, but the only way "they can assert the value of human considerations...