Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fawzi is widely accounted a scholarly and able lawyer, but like many another attorney for a gangster client, he sometimes has to serve as a mere mouthpiece...
...would not fight just to defend Quemoy and Matsu but to stop Communism's heralded advance into the west Pacific-"I cannot dismiss these boastings as mere bluff...
Collective Responsibility. Only a few months before, neighboring Tunisia had with little bloodshed won from France the promise of internal autonomy. Perhaps F.L.N. leaders did not foresee a long fight for themselves. But in French eyes, Algeria was not a mere colony like Tunisia; it was an inseparable part of France "The only negotiation," announced French Interior Minister Fran-gois Mitterrand, "is war." By middle 1956 there were 400,000 French troops tied down in Algeria. The following year, to seal off Algeria from Tunisia, French forces began construction of the grandiose Ligne Morice (named after former Defense Minister Andre...
Narrow Margin. But the abolitionists railed louder than ever; pretty young Delegate June Hay derided the committee report as a mere excuse for Laborites who send their own children to private schools. Slyly, onetime Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell dug at Hugh Gaitskell and other private-school men among the platform-sitters : "I wish I had gone to one of these schools; there is no saying how far I would have gone...
...proud nowhere of earth's most prodigious night blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes -gifted with every keener appetite than mere unmiracle can quite appease- humbly in their imagined bodies kneel (over time space doom dream while floats the whole perhapsless mystery of paradise...