Word: meres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, it would be wrong to see the protests as mere expressions of government propaganda. The fear of U.S. hegemony is real, and now that Beijing is trying to cool the protests, it is finding it difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. Many protesters are convinced the May 7 bombing was intentional: while we take American benevolence for granted, residents of other countries may look at continued U.S. dominance with apprehension. Any policy that shows a willingness to use force to achieve humanitarian ends frightens countries with human rights problems. Intervention on behalf of the Kosovar Albanians...
...mere three months ago, the situation was vastly different. When Harvard Law School's Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Duncan M. Kennedy spoke at the campaign's rally in late February, he was in a distinct minority of faculty who publicly supported the campaign...
...check their cut against the "real" books. Add to that Disney's other financial woes, with second-quarter earnings down 41%. Wall Street still rates the company a buy, which must be some consolation to Eisner, whose own bonus was whacked in half last year--to a mere $5 million...
Even more ominous for those on the ground, however, was its demonic persistence. The average tornado logs mere minutes on the ground. The Chickasha twister settled in like a plow, ripping an 80-mile gash northeast through a corner of Oklahoma City and several suburbs over an endless four hours. Thousands of Oklahomans heard the shriek of the warning sirens gradually overwhelmed by a sound variously described as like a locomotive, or a screaming jet engine, or nothing on Earth. The worst fear, said Moore resident Delee MacAlister, "is the terror of knowing you are going to die. We prayed...
...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...