Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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their spirit. You, beyond the mere skill, used your...
...Lyndon Johnson puts more into his work than mere conniving. He took his plan before the Senate Appropriations Committee, which was unanimous in its approval. It asked Lyndon to write a report. He whipped it out of his pocket -already written. During the Senate debate on USIA, Johnson was on his feet for more than four hours, fencing, flattering, cajoling, finally was upheld by a resounding vote...
...choreographer, and the Glee Club, orchestra, and band all have full-time leadership. But in the Harvard Dramatic Club, which last year produced 19 productions within four months, the Debate Council, which boasts an 81 per cent record of victories, and the CRIMSON, where faculty advising is a mere lingering formality, the goals are set and attained by inner criticism and pressure...
...cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary) a potent center of temporal power and political leverage. When the throne was vacant, the primate was "interrex"(interim King), and when in 1772 Poland suffered the first of many partitions at the hands of Russia, Austria and Prussia, the Poles looked...
...renewal of national vows to the Madonna of Czestochowa, 500,000 Poles turned out at the shrine where King John Casimir dedicated his throne and country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most of the crowd, Cardinal Wyszynski celebrated Mass, opening a nine-year novena that will end in the 1,000th anniversary of Poland's beginning as a Christian land...