Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continual squirmish over the budget lies the key to the session. The President, committed to an essentially negative program of holding the line, was able to capture the initiative and characterize the Democratic position as one of mere unimaginative opposition--greater spending no matter what the need. The election results were not a mandate for greater spending, but rather for greater leadership. Since the President appeared to give this, even if initially only in a negative direction, much of the Democratic appeal was undercut...
Although the loyalty provision of the National Defense Education Act may appear harmless to many, the University's opposition to the loyalty oath involves much more than mere academic quibbling. The loyalty provisions now in the NDEA (Section 1001f) meet no clear and present security danger, but form instead a perilous restriction on academic autonomy and civil freedoms...
...original play dealt with the mass hysteria caused by one demogogue playing on the fears of the people. The political overtones of the play were obvious (which is probably why Hollywood has never attempted to make a movie of it), but the play was more than a mere social pamphlet. It centered on the moral struggle of its farmer-hero John Proctor, who, accused of "consorting with the Devil," chooses to die rather than confess to a crime he has not committed...
Like other bombers, the B70 has an advantage over missiles: it can be recalled, recovered and redirected, can seek out mobile ground targets, and if it misses them, come back to fight again. But the Valkyrie's futuristic design embraces qualities far beyond the capabilities of a mere manned weapon. At its Mach 3 speeds and ultra-high altitudes, it makes an inexpensive, i.e., retrievable, launching platform for earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first...
...between the eyes: to the miss who asked how to treat her swain's offer to "get married or something," Ann snapped: "You should get married-or nothing." Last August one of Columnist Landers' greatest admirers, Sun-Times Executive Editor Larry Fanning ("This girl has something beyond mere shrewdness"), detached her for a venture into straight reporting. Assignment: Moscow...