Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't a mere sloganeer...
This transfer of funds to Kreuger, which eventually brought him $144 million, enabled him to go into his criminal corporate juggling act. His fertile mind spawned some 400 subsidiary holding companies, many of them mere names. He used their paper assets to establish his credit in borrowing more money for his loans to European countries; 15 nations received a staggering $400 million. He duly received his match monopolies in return, and soon he was making two out of every three matches in the world...
Last week the Pope granted a special audience to "Miss Ideal Woman" of Italy, 18-year-old Miss Maria Paola Carletti, winner of a beauty contest that earned this unique papal approval by rating cultural, moral and housekeeping gifts higher than mere physical beauty...
...into the street." He recalls: "It did not seem at all odd to have five rooms and finally, in my junior year, to have a limousine with a chauffeur . . . Now and then [the chauffeur would] drive me in my Peerless limousine . . . from my rooms to chapel, a mere few hundred yards. This affectation gave me great delight...
...would be after. One cannot help speculating what might have happened in Hungary had a U.N. Police Force, composed mainly of Asian neutrals in this case, entered Budapest before the Soviets returned. The point is not that the U.N. force could have fought off the Soviets, but that its mere presence might have forstalled the bloody return. In this case, a U.N. force was needed, speedily...