Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the regulation of internal operations be left solely to the Senate. "The Constitution imposes on us ... the responsibility of keeping our own house in order," he said. "We know that we hold a public trust. We know that we must not permit public moneys to be used for mere personal or purely political purposes...
...mere mortal players were left to put the finishing touches on the spectacular game, which the Minutemen won in overtime...
WHAT IS MOST STRIKING about these ten portraits is not what they reveal about their subjects-after all, how much can be communicated in a 10- or 15-page monologue, told in an idiom that depends more on tone and inflection than on mere words ? The really starling thing about this book is what it reveals about the little old ladies who take their shopping bags to Bloomingdales, who attend B' nai Brith functions, who sit on park benches outside old age homes. I know I've been startled like this before-for instance, when a staid and jewel-bedecked...
...debate on American foreign policy. The virtual death of isolationist sentiment in this country, which, not long ago, it appeared possible to date, first to December 7, 1941, and more officially to Senator Vandenberg's advocacy of the United Nations in 1945, now shows itself to have been a mere illusion. Isolationism was sleeping, sleeping fitfully, and it is now aroused with renewed vigor and confidence...
What is most disturbing about the statistics is that it took millions of years of human existence to reach the 1 billion mark in 1850. But by 1930, a mere 80 years later, a second billion had been added, and by 1960 a third. The 5 billion mark is estimated to be only 13 years away, and by 2012 world population could be 8 billion. The country with the world's fastest-growing population in terms of annual percentage increases is Kuwait at 5.9%, the slowest, East Germany at -.3%. The U.S. growth rate...