Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesia as "acceptable." Privately, Vorster is said to believe Smith (a former R.A.F. pilot who Vorster feels is "refighting the Battle of Britain") must become more flexible. Vorster is prepared to "point out alternatives and offer advice" to the hardheaded Smith, but in return he insists that Kissinger must somehow persuade the guerrilla groups to ease up in their attacks on Rhodesia-hardly a simple task...
...Sadlowski can somehow overcome these deficiencies and win, mavericks in other unions will doubtless be encouraged to mount similar campaigns, and a feisty season could ensue in the labor-management arena. Within the Steelworkers, the factional fight has already literally drawn blood. A man distributing Sadlowski leaflets was shot in the neck in July outside a Hughes Tool Co. plant in Houston, and another Sadlowski supporter was punched around by three old-liners during the convention in Las Vegas...
...doing. They are wily and skilled in the law and its many loopholes. They know how to take advantage of unemployment officials who are inclined to give jobless people the benefit of a doubt. Their justification to themselves is that the economic system that resulted in their unemployment somehow owes them a living. Says Edward Kelly, a Massachusetts unemployment official: "It [unemployment compensation] is a fringe benefit they feel they should take advantage...
...Tasteless ... like distilled water ... zero content of a cognitive sort... I was the universe moving in itself... no longer quite human ... somehow divine"-in describing his own six mystical experiences. Bharati manipulates the vague traditional formulas. He also confirms that the "zero-experience," as he calls it, may be accompanied by feelings of unspeakable ecstasy. But then he springs a heresy: "Fasting, prayer, drugs, self-mortification, fornication, standing on his head, grace, listening to Tristan and Isolde unabridged three times in a row ... for a mystic, whatever leads to the zero-experience is good...
...kind of Roman Catholic devotion. In her dormitory room at West Germany's University of Würzburg, the pretty, pious young education student covered her walls with pictures of saints, kept a holy-water font near the door, regularly prayed the Rosary. Timid and intense, she seemed somehow afraid of life; even in her thesis, which she finished this spring, she focused on the phenomenon of fear. Then, one month later, Anneliese died at home in Klingenberg at the age of 23, wasted to skin and bones. Cause of death, according to an autopsy: "malnutrition and dehydration...