Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress last week was irritating President Eisenhower in areas beyond mere personal attack. He had been privately nettled at the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for opening itself up to blame in the suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Herbert Norman (see HEMISPHERE); Ike tried to calm the Canadian uproar with words of sympathy. Nettling him also was continued congressional delay in an area where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned...
...Detroit word could possibly describe it. What to name it? Soaring images tumbled from copywriters' brains; contests were held. But to Ford Special Products Division's David Wallace, a most literate carmaker, even the brightest, headiest names in all cardom were far from enough. This was no mere car; it was poetry in motion. And it was to the nation's leading poetess that Wallace went for help...
...forth-right gestures and voice to create a strong characterization. As Oona, Cathleen's foster-mother, Gail Kepner shows perfectly adequate control of a dull part, but her attention, understandably, often wanders away from it. Liam Clancy, who looks like a feckless young Irish poet, plays one, but with mere wistful lyricism; his voice lacks distinction as much as his spirit lacks life. Finally, the two devils, despite their appropriate looks, need shape, and are neither enticing nor sympathetic nor humorous...
...this case Reader Peyer has seen less than meets the eye. The Siva-Linga shown by TIME has four faces (for his four aspects, including his peaceful, feminine one, which faces north). In addition, there is traditionally a fifth (signifying the Cosmos) on top, but invisible to mere mortals...
...hours when bus drivers discovered they could not drive and argue about fares at the same time. Mothers fretted that the new coins were too easy for kids to swallow. Even the beggars complained formally that the changeover would cost them profits since passers-by now tossed them a mere naya paisa (.01 rupee) instead of a pice (.015 rupee). But through it all, Decimalist Nehru seemed pleased and proud of his changeover, as well he might. He had decided to get it over while India was still largely unencumbered by adding machines and cash registers. "The later we made...