Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With at least a share in the title guaranteed for the Crimson, motivation proved to be a problem in the opening period. Harvard's defense did not pressure the Yale forwards, but the Elis failed to capitalize on the advantage--firing a mere three shots in the first half...
Given the bad feelings between Reagan and Ortega, easy concessions are not expected. "These people are in a war of propaganda," says a Honduran , official. "Neither side wants to be the one to give in." Still, the debate over bilateral or multilateral talks is more than mere posturing. The Sandinistas, who know that renewed bilateral talks will lend their regime prestige, argue that until the U.S. forthrightly announces its support for the Guatemala plan, it is not entitled to participate in regional negotiations. "Why should we let Reagan take part?" asks Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
...those who travel to Yale will be mere spectators at The Game. Harvard house intramural teams will travel to Yale in force to take on their counterpart teams in events ranging from touch football to soccer...
...Americans view the law. People seem to believe that the laws, passed by their elected representatives, ought to be obeyed only when convenient. An atmosphere of evasion--in taxes and business regulations as well as drugs--is replacing a faith that laws are passed for a greater good than mere momentary pleasures...
...terms of color. She has never been a "natural" colorist (black, white, duns and a range of silvery grays, punctuated with the occasional splotch of crimson or ultramarine blue, came easiest to this tonal painter), and quite often her efforts to introject color into her work looked like mere tints imposed on a monochrome structure...