Word: mereness
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...along I wrongly thought my ancient ancestors just drank, raped, pillaged and caused fear at the mere mention of their name." CONSTANCE D. DYER Salt Lake City, Utah...
Wrong. Rudy Giuliani's decision to drop out wasn't a huge surprise--the New York City mayor is battling prostate cancer and his wife just hired a fancy divorce lawyer--but it was a personal drama of operatic proportions, a thunderclap so loud that mere politics couldn't account for it. And Hillary Rodham Clinton may find that Giuliani's likely replacement, Long Island Congressman Rick Lazio, is a tougher opponent than Rudy would have been. Lazio is no titan, but he is young, genial, ethnic, Roman Catholic, suburban and unknown to most voters--just like George Pataki...
Oklahoma governor Frank Keating, who used to work with several of those killed, had been a mere three months in office when the bombing occurred. One should really go to the memorial at night, he tells me. "To see those chairs lighted; it makes you understand that each chair is a symbol of a human life lost. The hillside of lights is overwhelming. I met a woman who lost her father in the bombing, and I expressed my sympathy. But she seemed to take solace from the chairs, and unlike some others, she did sit in the chair with...
After missing 73 days with a concussion, ex-Flyers captain Eric Lindros' return to the ice Wednesday night has found the universal admiration of media and fan alike. His mere presence at the Meadowlands was a triumph of the will after a saga in which he heard his own General Manager, Bobby Clarke, intimate the team was better without...
...other hand, though capable from time to time of the polysyllabic Dirksen purr, has used public speech for the most serious of intellectual purposes, as a sharply civilized weapon, an instrument of instruction and correction. This, when one is talking politics, is unusual. A protest without a program is mere sentimentality, as a political theorist wrote. Buckley's opinions have always proceeded not from emotion but from a structure of thought - agree with it or not. He appeals to the standard of "right reason." "However caught up you are in the romanticisms which sweep the world," he suggested modestly...