Word: mereness
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...sheer variety and literary ingenuity, perhaps only Finnegans Wake (a mere 628 pages) can compare to the 3,183-page work released last week by the Office of the Independent Counsel. In fine postmodern style, it is filled with real data, everything from e-mail to grand jury testimony to phone logs. Some of our favorite things...
...exhibit, dividing her attention between my education and anyone else staring at a fish. To a girl in pigtails eyeing a flounder she says, "See? He's looking at you too!" Earle is one of those dangerous people whose buoyant charm can make people do preposterous things. At a mere signal of her hand, I find myself on all fours, crawling through the toddler entrance to the exhibit for children...
...have convinced many Americans that their opinions should carry the day whether they turn out or not. During the 20 months from the beginning of 1973 until Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974, 128 polls asked Americans whether they thought the President should leave office. But in the mere nine months since the Lewinsky scandal broke, according to Don Ferree of the Roper Center, pollsters have asked that question more than 325 times. A Gallup poll this month finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans want their Representatives to stick close to American public opinion when deciding on impeachment rather...
Still, the mere fact that the top prospects forthe convention are located in bell-weather states;Miami (Florida,) Philadelphia (Pennsylvania,) LosAngeles (California) and Boston speaks to theconvention's primarily political role...
...biggest Earth-bound burst of gamma rays and X rays ever recorded pummeled our planet's upper atmosphere, disrupting radio broadcasts and satellite transmissions -- whilst the occupants, safely sheltered beneath a thick blanket of air, remained largely oblivious. The source of this blistering radiation: a tiny star, measuring a mere 12 miles in diameter (roughly the size of Washington, D.C.), speeding more than 20,000 light-years away on the other side of the Milky...