Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Square was deserted, and all was quiet on the Cambridge front. But while the rest of the city slept off the side-effects of Saturday-night partying, a group of middle-aged men squared off against a contingent of hungover women in what was far more than a mere pick-up game...
...cautiously. At the end of his visit with President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left quietly with no farewell ceremony; incoming British Prime Minister James Callaghan did not receive the traditional 19-gun salute, for fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours. The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody with a cause and a gun, be he mad or madcap, fanatic or eccentric, can seize and hold national attention by kidnaping...
...begin this Wednesday. Privately, some New Delhi pundits were betting that when the votes are counted next week, they will add up to the first national defeat for Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party in India's 30 years of independence. Even if the pundits are wrong, the mere fact that a defeat now seems possible marks a dramatic reversal for Mrs. Gandhi-only eight weeks after she had confidently called for elections and relaxed the authoritarian rule she had imposed in the name of a national emergency...
...minimum of violence. But concern grew among opposition leaders when officials in Delhi ordered some 200,000 central reserve police and members of the paramilitary border-security force to the countryside-a week before the elections-officially to maintain law and order. As Janata leaders quickly noted, their mere presence may inhibit efforts to get out the opposition vote...
...ever known." Indeed, the results of the young British scientist's experiments on the effects of opiates on nervelike cells were notable enough to be published in several journals, including Nature. Now Nature has printed another communication by Gullis: a letter admitting that his results were fraudulent-"mere figments of my imagination...