Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gandhi, whose name should be familiar to a Harvard undergraduate. Gujarati merits attention on other counts which we will not go into here for fear of stepping into the intricacies of Indian linguistic and cultural history. We may excuse Rosenthal for not knowing Sindhi, which is spoken by a mere 20 million people in southern Pakistan and various places in India...
...minority groups. Underlying your editorial are denigrating assumptions about police Department in particular. Why is it acceptable to make such assumptions about the men and women in my department? It is nice to have your generalized praise of our professionalism, but please be fair and do not assume that mere allegations of misconduct are the same as actual misconduct...
...Democratic debate had been whether Mike Dukakis was going to think of something to argue about or not. But when rumors of a scandal rumor started circulating, the debate shifted. My fellow Democratic candidates turned against me. Some began saying that a rumor of a scandal was not a mere rumor, but a scandal in itself. Others accused me of having sex with a woman to whom I was married...
These were not mere contingency plans; they were operational plans advocated by some of the nation's top military and civilian strategists. In his memoirs, Eisenhower recalled that while president-elect he thought "it was clear that we would have to use atomic weapons" in Korea...
...Walk is no mere docudrama or soapbox spiel. Like Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...