Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bleak Future. But Campbell, administering to a population of 860,000 and thus above the size generally suited for city-manager systems, soon ran into political troubles. Foolishly, he demoted Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly to a mere process server, only to have that popular vote-getter generate such heat that Campbell had to appoint him head of the big new Public Safety Department. Administrator Campbell's rigidity worried the political commissioners, who subtly retaliated by passing arbitrary ordinances for him to enforce, e.g., an apartment-only zoning rule for an area which Miami Beach had zoned for hotels...
...Island, the type he could buy with about four weeks' salary. Last week, in the first interview since he was named G.M. chairman, Donner spelled out his ideas to TIME Correspondent George Bookman with thin-lipped determination to let people know that he is far more than a mere book balancer, hopes to prove that he is as forceful a personality as his predecessor, Supersalesman Harlow Curtice...
...envelope, Dean Bundy attempted to tell the newcomers what the Summer School should be like. Speaking from notes on the back of a small folder, he used Woodrow Wilson's definition of a University atmosphere: "What students talk about when they are not engaged in academic pursuits." Mere residence could not associate anyone with Harvard: "You have to make it yours," he told them. "It does not come...
Taken together, the U.S. responses to threats by force were the most important foreign-policy moves since Korea. As no mere reassuring pronouncement could do, they guaranteed that the most powerful arms in the world were on call to defend national freedom, that in its attempt to work toward a just and foolproof peace the free world could deal from ready strength and not from weakness...
...public school teacher (Stowe), Tim White is still a hawk when it comes to learning, will shortly disgorge a bookful of myths and legends about Ireland. After that, he plans to return to the Arthurian cycle. It is no mere escapism that drives him back, but what a friend calls "his dedication to the cause of gentleness." Facing 20th century life, Terence Hanbury White finds himself, more than ever, agreeing with Malory's publisher Caxton on the virtues that might redeem the time: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse, humanyte, frendlynesse, hardynesse, love...