Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veto message, Nixon had claimed that the bill is unconstitutional because it would "take away, by a mere legislative act, authorities which the President has properly exercised under the Constitution for almost 200 years." Proponents of that view contend that the President's constitutional designation as Commander in Chief and the foreign policy responsibilities assigned to him amply demonstrate that the founding fathers intended that the Chief Executive use decisive, independent military power when necessary. As a practical matter, Nixon continued, under the new law "we may well have been unable to respond" in the Cuban missile crisis...
...became quickly evident. A curious arrangement was worked out: the two embassies will remain "specialinterest sections" of other nations' embassies, under the usual plan carried on when countries fall out but want to continue some kind of contact. But these sections will be headed by ambassadors, and not mere charg...
...skilled technicians, but mobilization has not drained the civilian economy of needed manpower. If anything, it has helped Egypt's chronic unemployment problem. One international firm has offices in both Cairo and Jerusalem, employing about 140 in each city. The war cut its Jerusalem staff down to a mere eleven; in Cairo all the workers are on the job. Even though Cairo airport was closed for 24 days, hotels report few cancellations of bookings for the lucrative winter season...
There was a moment of dead silence at the end of the show, before the audience applauded. A mere half-show doesn't do that to people. But just the words of the author cannot give soul to a play, soul comes from the people. In this case, the people were lacking...
...already established by two volumes of original and translated poetry, and the definitive translation, in collaboration with Didley Fitts, of several Greek tragedies, including Sophocles' Oedipal trilogy and Euripides' Alcestis. As William Arrowsmith pointed out in his review of Fitzgerald's Odyssey in The Nation, Fitzgerald avoids a mere word-by-word rendering of the original poem. Rather, he totally recasts the Greek into English,...rethinking and reshaping the Greek by turning the thrust and power beneath the words rather than the words themselves...