Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeds ($345,000 in cash carried in a knapsack). He subsequently gave the car to a Connecticut mechanic for services rendered. The feds seized the car and, when the mechanic was unable to prove that he had no reason to suspect a crime connection, agreed to give him a mere $135,000 as a settlement. A Rhode Island auto dealer is paying $1.6 million...
When he was asked about his audience, C.S. Lewis, author of the classic Narnia tales, refused to comment on the "difficult relations between child and parent or child and teacher." An author, he thought, "as a mere author, is outside all that. He is not even an uncle. He is a freeman, like the postman, the butcher, and the dog next door." This year, eleven outstanding books seem to have been composed by liberated spirits, outside the family but intensely interested in it. If the dog next door met any one of them, it would surely set its tail...
...fired-up Harvard contingent finished the first period with a mere one-goal deficit. The icewomen stayed with the fast-skating Wildcats, demonstrated expert passing, and set up a good triangle formation on a Crimson power play 12 minutes into the game...
...Discontent: Sometimes it pays not to play. Sophomore center Mal Hollensteiner played a mere three seconds against the Wildcats. But in that time, Hollensteiner grabbed a rebound, stepped out of bounds to turn the ball over, and left the court...
...decade ago, there was a warming in U.S.-Soviet affairs that we called `detente.' But while talking friendship, the Soviets worked even faster on the largest military buildup in world history. They stepped up their aggression around the world. They became more repressive at home. We do not want mere words. This time we're after true peace," Reagan said...