Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made it clear that mere qualification for NCAA competition did not mean that we would send any team or individual for such competition," he added...
...team qualified through a mere quirk in the system...
...CALL ALL these old cartoons mere nostalgia pieces is to deny that old ladies still might comment to each other "I love driving. It gives me such a sense of power," as they did in an early 40s Helen Hokinson; that a young woman might peek into a mirror and say to her reflection "Boo! You pretty creature" as in a late 20s Peter Arno; or that these situations might strike a responsive chord in any of our lives...
...UNITA forces have made spectacular gains in recent weeks. Two months ago, the M.P.L.A. controlled twelve of Angola's 16 districts; it now appears to have only six. At week's end columns of troops were moving toward Luanda from two sides; the F.N.L.A. was a mere dozen miles to the north of the city and had already come close enough to mortar the pipeline carrying the capital its water from the Bengo River. As a result, the few VIPS attending the M.P.L.A.'S independence ceremonies were unwashed and unshaven. Meanwhile, UNITA was moving up from...
...Even so, tests show slight brain activity, which means, said the judge, Karen is "not brain dead by present known medical criteria." Under common law, he went on, neither "the fact that the victim is on the threshold of death" nor "humanitarian motives" can justify taking life. Dismissing as mere "semantics" such questions as whether pulling the plug would be an act of commission or omission, he ruled that the move "would result in the taking of the life of Karen Quinlan when the law of the state indicates that ... would be a homicide...