Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the G-man boom is The FBI Story (Random House; $4.95), by Pulitzer Prizewinner Don Whitehead, a 20-year A.P. veteran now Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune. No mere puff job, Whitehead's book is a searching, definitive history and, though done with FBI cooperation, takes a well-balanced view of the bureau. To the surprise of Author Whitehead, Random House and newspaper editors, the book turned out to be a runaway bestseller, sold 150,000 copies in five weeks (initial print order: 35,000); last week the publishers planned to print another...
Although most queuers loyally denied it, statistics clearly indicated that the ill-fated Suez adventure had powerfully affected the Britons' decision to leave. The British emigrant flow to Canada averaged close to 50,000 annually in the first difficult postwar years, but fell off to a mere 12,000 in 1950 as British living conditions improved. In 1955, despite vigorous Canadian promotion, only 35,467 made the move. Applications picked up noticeably after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in midsummer, and when the canal was blocked and new austerity measures were enforced at home, the long queues began...
...sunny Italy, where the pastime of cheating revenooers is a national sport, three hot-eyed cinemactresses with bulging purses-Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Oscar-winning Anna Magnani-disrespectfully submitted their yearly earnings reports. Poor Gina claimed to have taken in $48,000, hard-pressed Sophia a mere $25,600, impoverished Anna a pathetic $5,600. After gallantly taking the ladies' gaunt figures as gospel, the revenooers, just for fun, totted up their own estimates: Gina, $130,000; Sophia, $97,000; Anna...
...religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could have such tender concern for the dead...
Barzun concludes: "To expand for the sake of a mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...