Word: merest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make it easy to turn down aid, have all refused to accept the merest Red cent...
...article in the Observer (London) and the Boston Sunday Globe, Galbraith attributed Goldwater's ability to sew up the nomination to modern methods of communication and travel. A comvention, he said, has become "the merest formality." "Had there been more primaries, there would have been no Goldwater," he said...
...merest formality, the coup de gráce, and then everyone could adjourn to the clubhouse for the popping of the corks. There stood "Champagne Tony" Lema at last week's Cleveland Open, 15 under par, with just a one-foot putt between him and $20,000-and everybody knows that golf pros do not miss one-foot putts. But there was a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Ever so casually, Tony stepped up to the ball. Ever so casually, he pushed it right around the hole...
...Buenos Aires last week, customs officials were auctioning off a $100 million hoard of contraband-1,500 cars, mountains of nylons, radios and TV sets -confiscated over the last few years. It was only the merest drop in a very deep bucket. By conservative estimate, Argentine smugglers will do a $300 million business this year, while their counterparts in Brazil will gross an even handsomer $400 million. Total sales for all Latin America are well over $1 billion annually...
...Harvard Square hasn't heard of James Bond, he must be the all-time champion Lamont hibernator or chem lab wonk. The Bond canon, ranging from the sublime (Live and Let Die) to the ridiculous (The Spy Who Loved Me), is a perennial paperback bestseller series, and on the merest hint the "sneak preview" of From Russia With Love at the Harvard Square Theater a fortnight ago proved to be the biggest sellout of the year...