Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Employment passed a record total of 5,700,000 jobs, while unemployment (mostly transient labor moving from one job to the next) dropped to a mere 1% of the national labor force...
...well established," said the Federal Communications Commission this week in its annual report. The FCC backed up its understatement with some figures: the U.S. has 496 commercial TV stations on the air, against a mere 69 only seven years ago. This means that nearly 300 communities have at least one station, and 90% of the American people are within viewing range. And, with 128 applications for new stations on hand, the FCC expects the phenomenal growth to keep right...
...stale and stupid quips, but rather its greasy benevolence. Fairly often, to be sure. Actor Skulnik shakes himself free from it: with a demonstration of how to walk so that shoes will not wear out, with a tale of how each month his landlord pays him rent, with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish; and oftenest, he is mowed down by it. The evening is as unhappy a mixture as an omelet would be made...
NATO members should try to settle disputes among themselves (e.g., Cyprus) within the NATO organization itself, empowered the Secretary-General to offer his good offices in the mediation, thereby making the job more than the mere functionary role it had been under Lord Ismay...
Except for the editorial, this issue contains no 'ideological' articles. The viewpoint that its editors have reached, or returned to, cannot perhaps be enunciated in proclamations, and few can be convinced by the mere saying of it. Maybe the viewpoint can better be discovered in the stories and poems and pictures of this issue...