Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purchase only by foreign-government bankers who wanted to redeem dollars that the U.S. insisted were as good as gold; later the U.S. Government would not sell it to anyone. Last week, though, the Treasury announced plans more in line with its current belief that gold has become a mere commodity. On Jan. 6 it will sell 2 million ounces of the glittery stuff at public auction to any purchasers, American or foreign, who care to submit sealed bids. That is only a minor part of the Treasury's total hoard of 276 million ounces but still nearly equals...
...that his hand was relatively useless. More morbid conjecturers claim that he had a bad case of the claw--his hand tightened up into a gruesome eagle-grip. But the wildest theory I've heard yet was that he had a thirty-eight inch cock. Of course this is mere speculation--nobody really knows for sure what compelled Napoleon to do all the things he did. But George Bernard Shaw had some ideas of his own about the "Corsican ogre" as he once called him, and they're all in a real good, though short production called...
...many strange ways its listeners did. The rock that succeeded it kept up the noise but lost the content. Sometimes it tried to club people into oblivion, deaden their senses (great with quaaludes). Or it tried to take people into an abstract other-world, a zillion steps past mere escape. Or it turned the great strength of the music--its implicit threat to the existing order--into a parody of itself, dressing up in paint and feather boas...
...very unifying changes that France opposed only a few months ago. He wants many decisions of the Council of Ministers to be made by majority vote rather than by unanimous consent, and he would like to increase the prestige of the Parliament of Europe, which is now a mere debating body, by having its members elected rather than appointed...
...Formula Super V cars (1/2 as powerful as the Ones) screaming around the course like a thousand giant bees. Out of the acres of parked campers appear the thousands of families in this record crowd of 105,000. Under the hot sun they flock dutifully to the trackside, a mere 100 feet from where we are camped. The day's first six-packs of beer are being opened. The infield, littered with dead campfires, is fast filling to capacity. Suddenly all is quiet. The cars have finished their heat...