Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money, not the family stuff--I think Brooke would be a sure bet," William Schneider, associate professor of Government, explains. Forty-nine per cent of the people questioned recently in a Massachusetts poll feel that Brooke "has not been honest and above-board in his personal affairs." A mere two per cent say the same for Tsongas. Says fellow Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58, "Tsongas is accessible, humble, sincere, unassuming, but there is an inner strngth there...To the extent that integrity in government is the underlying political issue, Paul Tsongas is the answer." Mr. Clean runs for Senate...
Because of the technological revolution, one farmer in the U.S. now feeds 59 people. Elsewhere, the ratio of total population to the number of farmers and farm laborers is 19.2 in Western Europe, 13.7 in Japan, a mere 10 in the Soviet Union. U.S. agriculture feeds people well and cheaply too. The average American intake of more than 3,000 calories per day is among the highest in the world, and though citizens of some other nations match the U.S. in calories, probably none do in variety of diet...
...Herd's victory seemed assured just a mere 200 yards from the finish line of the grueling five-mile course, when Harvard's fifth man, Thad McNulty, collapsed from sheer exhaustion and was unable to complete the race. McNulty, in the 28th position when he dropped out of the competition, needed only to capture one of the top 39 slots to secure the trophy for Harvard. "I'm the goat," McNulty said immediately following the race, "there's just no way to get around that...
Last week's papal inaugural speech contained a noteworthy sentence on ecumenism: "Hopefully, thanks to a common effort, we might arrive finally at full communion" with other Christians. That does not appear to be mere lip service. Just four days before Wojtyla's election, Protestant Billy Graham preached to an overflow audience at St. Anne's Roman Catholic church in Cracow?at the personal invitation of Cardinal Wojtyla. The choice of a Pole stirred deep anxiety among Jews in Israel and elsewhere, because of Poland's history of antiSemitism, but hurried phone calls to Poland and Rome reassured Jewish leaders...
Certainly the tax and energy bills, necessary though they are, will not right the economy. They once were the keystones of the President's economic strategy, but by the time they finally survived their ordeal by Congress, they had come to seem mere Band-Aids...