Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to go beyond mere recording of nature to achieve an actual identification with it is the supreme ambition...
...soil has been tilled by the frontiersman or the commercial farmer--both of them interested in improving their position in society. Thus the middle class has been increased in numbers, while there has been no class lovingly devoted--like the Russian peasant--to the land. Although we realize that mere economic measures would not bring about the desired social structure, it is also true that the older European corporate and feudal system was partially broken down by just such a levelling process as that of the graduated income tax. By reversing that economic process, we might well bring about...
...Mere Coincidence. Inevitably, the U.S.S.R. moved to capitalize on this uneasiness among the world's free nations. In London, Valerian Zorin, Russian delegate to the U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament renewed the Soviet "offer" to abandon H-bomb tests if the U.S. and Britain would do likewise. As usual, however, the men in the Kremlin were working both sides of the street. Two days before Zorin's statement, the Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard...
Krishna Menon owes his rise to power primarily to the friendship of Jawaharlal Nehru, who stubbornly rejects all criticism of his protege as "mere jealousy," describes him as "the best U.N. diplomat since Andrei Vishinsky." But even Nehru's affection could not have transformed the cantankerous Menon into a major force in Indian politics had it not been for the U.N. debates on Kashmir, during which Menon staged the longest filibuster (seven hours and 48 minutes) in U.N. history, wound up by collapsing dramatically on the floor of the Security Council...
...question arises as to whether the investigation, occuring mainly in 1958, will become a Democratic campaign weapon. Evidence of a "businessman's administration" should be exposed, but broader purposes should not be submerged by mere electioneering. The subcommittee's greatest service would be to assure public control over bodies exercising such power in the national economy...