Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bread & Coffee. But last week these deprivations seemed like minor matters. Great numbers of the Navajos are facing starvation. Only 161 of their 11,117 families own as many as 200 sheep-the number needed to maintain a mere subsistence level of living. Without big irrigation projects (which could make the reservation capable of supporting 35,000 people at most), their desolate lands are almost useless for agriculture...
Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...
...press, political opinion. He fought, then fled the Nazis in 1939; returned in 1945 when U.S. and British pressure resulted in Stalin ordering the Moscow-created Polish provisional government to make a place for him. A rigged election (TIME, Jan. 27) had reduced Mikolajczyk and his party to a mere political shadow...
...Berchtesgaden by the thousand for pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
...cannot be denied that some nonacademic presidents have made decided successes. . . . But... I wonder whether the present trend in our universities . . . may not be responsible for the fact that we can today count our outstanding presidents on the fingers of one hand. ... I should place educational leadership ahead of mere administrative ability; the latter can be secured, it can be bought. The former is far rarer. . . . What reason have we to anticipate that men whose aim has been the winning of elections, or increasing the earnings of their stockholders, or even defeating the enemy in a series of bloody battles...