Word: mereness
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...first saw Brown?s act in Philadelphia, probably at the Uptown Theatre, in the late '50s. He came on, and the place instantly got hotter. He prowled the stage, shrieking with the intensity of a tent-show shaman and the knowing hyperbole of a carny pitchman. All this mere prelude to the extended climax of ?Please Please Please,? his first hit, which back then was fresh off the R&B charts...
...forces might have deterred the kidnappers. Chiarelli has been one of the most prominent military figures to downplay the potential gains of increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But he acknowledges the effect of troops on the ground. "Those things that are purely sectarian, normally our mere presence, the mere presence of coalition forces, causes them to stop, at least as long as we're there," he says...
...Nine percent is significantly more than what one would expect if grants were assigned by mere luck,” Bebchuk said in an interview yesterday...
...fact, there was a departure from “mere luck” in 11 out of 12 industries studied, he said...
...movie's premise and urged the studio, New Line Cinema, to amp up the film's violence. But like snakes, Internet hype can't be tamed, and like flying, it's not that easy to get right. When Snakes finally opened, it was box-office venom, taking in a mere $34 million, not even half of cheapie horror flick...