Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children,' he said softly. Those who had escaped by hiding in the caves where livestock are generally kept hunted for other survivors; when they heard a cry, they dug. A lady in black walked through the rubble carrying a mirror almost as tall as she and somehow still intact. Pausing to rest, she set it carefully on the ground for a moment. 'Now I've lost my husband,' she said. 'And my question is Why kill us? We don't fight...
This widespread skepticism persists alongside, and maybe partly as a result of, an inextinguishable American optimism-the belief that the country will somehow solve every problem. Together, skepticism and optimism thwart all efforts to move the public. The skeptical citizen, finally, cannot possibly see anything to be gained or any self-interest to be served by cutting down on the normal use of energy...
...some two dozen scientific papers, he has neither a Ph.D. nor a coterie of doting graduate students. What Kowal, 37, does have is a discerning eye and an insatiable appetite for scanning the sky. During the past decade, he has discovered one comet and five more that had somehow been "lost" as well as the 13th-and what may prove to be the 14th-moon of Jupiter, and 80 supernovas, or exploding stars. Last week Kowal announced an even more remarkable sighting: a small, faint object orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus. It could be the solar system...
...deep yearning of Westerners to put faces on the facts and statistics. There is no scholarly discourse on the roots of the two-line struggle, for instance; instead, Schell quotes workers, who described to him how the struggle and its resolution affected their lives. It makes the picture somehow more complete than either a simple first-person narrative or an academic work could be, because Schell has tried, generally with success, to put the face behind the statistics...
Marilyn French's first novel, The Women's Room, entwines all these overworked themes and setting. Only, as the frustrated reader surprisingly discovers, somehow it works. Just as you reach the point of nausea over a suburban kitchen dialogue, or read one more Harvard grad student gripe, French's narrator intervenes, letting you know that she too is bored...