Word: merely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...time Japan moved into Indo-China, Thailand decided to demand this strip of land, to close the gap in the barrier. Because she went to work on Indo-China to do this, the outside world got the impression that Thailand was aiding Japan, was in fact already a mere tool of Japan. In the end, Bangkok might become a little Vichy but this time Thailand was trying to aid Thailand before it was too late...
...Lompoc, Calif. When Mr. Sousé drinks a pony of straight whiskey, he always demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like to bathe in the same water twice." He is allergic to the mere presence of children. When he spies an urchin in his bank, brandishing a toy pistol, Fields pounces like a terrier on a rat, has to be pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days...
...carry on and correlate throughout the U. S. and Canada (with many a friendly contact elsewhere around the globe) the work now done by the boards to be merged into it. Its four main divisions will be departments on faith and life, Christian education, missions at home, abroad. No mere federation of federations, it will get its powers directly from its constituent churches...
...little industry, and though it more than doubled its 1939 sales to over $400,000,000, it remained so. When the planemakers began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began to worry. So did the British, who got about a fifth of the industry's 1940 production...
...just one of those days," ex plained proud Owner-Coach George Halas, who had taken over the Bears as mere cubs 20 years ago. "Everything we did, we did right. Everything they did, they did wrong...