Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southerners scored a sentimental victory last week when the House, following the Senate, voted to restore full citizenship to General Robert E. Lee, a mere 110 years after he had applied for it. Another old Southern question was not so tranquilly disposed of, namely the question of black citizens' right to vote...
...want to go back to the presidency as it was before F.D.R. The world has become so complex that there are many important areas where government must help men to determine their own destinies, and the oceans behind which American isolation once flourished have shrunk until they would be mere passing specks beneath intercontinental missiles. But it is possible, particularly after more than 40 years have passed, for even the most valuable of reforms to defeat its own objectives by going...
...schedule is so set up that the biggest impact on prices would not occur until after the November 1976 elections. The immediate effect on an economy recovering from inflationary recession would be minimal; by White House estimate, prices of gasoline and other petroleum products would rise a mere half-cent to a penny per gallon this year...
...what do I find? Do I find myself studying under one of those professors who make Harvard what it is, one of those professors I am spending time and money to study under? No, I am put under a young boy, a man no older than myself, a mere dude. Do you suppose he is competent to teach me anything...
That left only the Communists and the fellow-traveling M.D.P. (Portuguese Democratic Movement) with party representation in the Cabinet; the two groups had polled a mere 18% of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election, compared with 38% for the Socialists and 26% for the P.P.D. So tiny a fraction made a mockery of any M.F.A. attempt to maintain the fiction of democratic participation in the government. The M.F.A. thus swept out all representatives of political parties...