Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mere chance that the Military Academy attracts such men for its cadets. The standards of physical, mental, and emotional prowess that a boy must show before he is even admitted to West Point are enough to make most youths turn to the less arduous pursuits of the civilian, and the rigors of undergraduate life once he is admitted require either great stamina or a peculiar degree of insensitiveness...
...Seattle Times, which turns sideswipe into sidewipe, nothing is ever unique. The Times also dislikes the mere mention of blood "except in the cases of transfusions and hounds." And in the Scripps-Howard papers, among others, robbers are never bandits. Roy Howard says that bandits are found only in Mexico, and that they all died out with Pancho Villa anyway...
...most repulsive creature imaginable, addicted to listening at keyholes and cutting up flies. It seems a weakness on Cocteau's part to have chosen a freak to personify the evil in the world. But perhaps the choice does not spring so much from Cocteau's philosophy as from a mere theatrical whim. It is just such flaws, and not his experimental miscarriages, which keep Cocteau from getting one of out Genuine Genius Awards which are passed out so frequently these days...
...rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products, shutting down his money-losing sidelines. Few textile men thought that a mere Senate committee would budge tough Roy Little...
...politician. But he has long been loth to leave the safe berth of civil service. The cabinet post assured Pearson of a pay boost, from $15,000 to $19,000 when he gets elected to Parliament. It also assured him of a pay cut, to $6,000 as a mere M.P., should the Liberals lose control of the government, or to zero should he be defeated...