Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolve itself into a firm stand against Nicaragua. We certainly don't feel strongly enough to send our own soldiers and most polls show that Americans don't favor funding the Contras. A $100 million out of a trillion dollar budget is a mere trifle for the House to spend in order to relieve some of the pressure about the threat to the south placed on them by Reagan and other conservatives...
...ensuing chain reaction has changed modern society. Over the span of 60 years, Bell Labs has generated 21,000 patents, one for each of the institution's working days and then some. More than mere inventions, the patents cover breakthroughs that have launched entire industries--developments such as the transistor, the solar cell and satellite TV. Meanwhile, scientists at Bell have raked in seven Nobel prizes and, in the process, inspired some legends...
...mere presence of visitors, moreover, inevitably strips perfection of its most distinctive blessing: its innocence of self-consciousness. As soon as Eden is told that it is Eden, it becomes something else. These days every Arcadia is tempted to regard itself as a potential commodity, and paradise is less often lost than remaindered. The visitor to Nepal, which was long known as the Forbidden Land and closed to foreigners until as recently as 1951, can now stay comfortably at the Hotel Eden in Katmandu. Just around the corner, he can dine at the Paradise Restaurant or the Earth's Heaven...
Some of the LaRouchites' latest activities have shown them to be far more aggressive than mere purveyors of political twaddle. A dedicated adherent last month gained access to the country home of Katharine Graham, chairwoman of the Washington Post Co., and snooped around the upstairs bathroom where her husband Philip's body was found after he committed suicide in 1963. The uninvited guest said he was sketching the bathroom for a "research project." Members of the Trilateral Commission meeting in Madrid last month received harassing phone calls from people who posed as Israeli journalists seeking information about the foreign policy...
Rivera became a cubist after 1913, but he was no mere follower. Not only are his cubist canvases a lot bigger and more fiercely colored than those of most of his contemporaries, but they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail...