Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after the press conference, Baltimore received the official telegram from Stockholm informing him of the award. The brief message was a mere four lines long...
...mother's unconventionality. He choked over women's suffrage. After a rowdy demonstration outside Parliament, he espied a suffragette and shouted, "Drive that woman away!" although he knew very well who she was; she had been his dinner hostess on frequent occasions. But this was a mere ungallantry. Churchill and his colleagues in the governing Liberal Party were so enraged at the suffragettes that they embarked on a vindictive antifeminist campaign. An epic struggle ensued...
...confidence, once the study got going, that it was actually going to accomplish things. That the various task forces carrying out the study have the potential to make major statements, though, is less important than their feeling that such a statement is needed. Rosovsky and the committee members' mere perception of that need says several interesting things--that Harvard's problems are not unique to Harvard; that there is in fact some sort of national drift in undergraduate education; and that the American educational community is sufficiently unified and reverent of Harvard that a major directive from Cambridge would...
...Agricultural Organization (FAO), a highly political body which would be out of work if its own figures didn't conclusively prove the world was on the brink of famine. By fooling around with their definitions one can 'prove' that anywhere from sixty all the way down to a mere fifteen percent of the Bengali population is underfed (fifteen per cent is the figure people often quote for malnutrition in the United States). Although things are bad, Bangladesh is not the hell the news has made it out to be; the newsmen who find starving people for you to watch have...
...Quai d'Orsay. He published his poems under a pseudonym to keep his official and poetic identities separate. In 1940 Leger fled to the U.S. rather than serve a French government that favored appeasement of Germany, and thereafter devoted himself to poetry. Though his output totaled a mere nine volumes, the influence of St.-John Perse was wide. His rich symbolism inspired works by such artists as Composer Elliott Carter, Painter Georges Braque and Poet T.S. Eliot, who compared Perse in importance to James Joyce...