Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although we won't know for sure for a few weeks, chances are that Drummey, who is hitting just a shade under .500, will emerge as the Eastern batting champion, with Bartolet pressing him in second place...
Dean Monro, who has placed the College's expansion potential a shade higher, at about 500 students over the next ten years, said yesterday that the reason for building the size of the College was to fulfill Harvard's "obligation to do what it can" in response to "a very great national need...
Rated only a shade below Ashkenazy and Ogdon last week were Philadelphia-born Pianist Susan Starr, 20, and Chinese Pianist Yin Cheng-tsung, 21, tied for second place. Playing before swarming crowds-tickets were so prized that one old lady who died during the winter willed hers to her niece-the contestants worked their way through three nerve-wrenching rounds before entering the finals...
...spirit of utter disregard. I doubt there was ever a genuine author who blamed the landscape for his failure. It is only after his heart has left him that he seeks excuses, and then he resorts to them with a relish that most of us save for deep shade on a hot day. Mother taxes, the bomb, far from feeding his inspiration, are now the very stuff (he says) that poisoned him. He intoned with authority against the parlous times. He wrings his hands and he yells for reform. When this happens is he not the same...
Pushed from Behind. Mandel writes in this upended fashion. He tells of the mental disintegration of a U.S. mechanized cavalry troop fighting in Germany in 1944, and his soldiers are only a shade more than interchangeable war novel parts. But he describes the branching filaments of their decay with subtle force, and states clearly a proposition that most battle novels fudge: in the insane world of mud, blood and constant gunfire, the normal condition of a combat soldier must be something close to insanity...