Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom spitting flame, soared into the blue sky. "Well, I'll tell you," one woman said disappointedly, "that wasn't the big one. I'm sure of that." She was right; it was only the Army's Jupiter, designed to carry a nuclear warhead a mere 1,500 miles...
...yelled as the fat man stumped onstage, flashed an 88-key grin and tore into the piano with both hands, like a starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted down to mere noise as he ducked his head shyly, leaned over to the mike and opened a satchel-sized mouth: "Ah'm walkin' "- each word a hard, booming beat-"Yes indeed, Ah'm talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes, an electric...
...profits from the sale of news to foreign newspapers. Blaming the press for "the gullibility of many people in this country to the snares of Soviet propaganda," Lawrence pointed out that even the original USIA budget request for $144 million was minuscule compared to Russian propaganda outlays, and "a mere pittance for the dissemination of ideas that could influence people abroad, restrain capricious rulers and prevent...
Pavlov's conditioned-reflex theory (a dog regularly fed at the ringing of a bell will eventually salivate at the mere sound, even though no food is offered) was only the beginning. In later work, which got little attention in the West, Pavlov sought to prove that dogs are of four temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or phlegmatic," and "weak inhibitory."* Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ("trans-marginally stimulated"). A dog usually breaks down...
Rage is Kazan's undoing. He hacks and hews with such ill-considered fury that the patient soon becomes a mere victim and the satire falls to pieces. The victim (Andy Griffith) is a big-time TV entertainer, a professional yokel. Behind his hawg-trough grin stands a greedy and brutal hog, but the public cannot see the phony character for the microphone manner. "Shucks,'' stutters Lonesome Rhodes, as he strim-strams on his li'l ole git-tar, "Ah'm jes' a country boy." And soon his public stretches...