Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More difficult to deal with is the problem of bad taste. Humor that tries to squeeze laughs out of other peoples' misery in the snugness of a Harvard theater, among the comfortable familiarity of jokes about stocks and bonds and investment bankers is somehow worse than callous; along those lines, this show must be the worst since the last time Bob Hope played the Nixon White House. Sexism and class insularity shoves the show forward. "When father was alive we were so poor we used to get foreign aid from Bangladesh!" cracks an actor. 'Excellent joke!" screams the happiest spectator...
...were in one of those movies, sitting on the track in front of an express train. The train is bearing down on you. You know what to do if you did not have ten other things that needed doing first. You are praying that the train somehow will miss and you will not get hit. Such a situation occurred in Cyprus. If I had ever had twelve hours and been able to pick out an intelligence report, I would have seen that the situation needed attention...
...replacement. Simpson, an All Star at Denver before he was traded during the offseason, could not adjust to his "sixth-man" role and told reporters he wanted out. Mean while, Brown was not exactly winning friends and influencing backcourt men. Porter felt belittled by him in practice and somehow Brown contrived to irritate most everyone else on the roster...
...task force concludes that such innovations will be carried through only if the Faculty is somehow motivated to invest more of their time in teaching...
...teaching evaluations have impact, the Task Force leaves loopholes so that "occasional exceptions may be made in the case of a person who is clearly superior to all other candidates but who is a poor teacher." The Task Force assumes that in such cases the scholar's knowledge would "somehow" be communicated to students in ways other than through actual teaching...