Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must somehow re-educate the average woman into believing that childbirth is satisfying, hard work, not a terrifying and painful experience...
Stung by Lance's attack, Ribicoff and Percy, who several weeks ago had championed his cause, stumbled onto the defensive. They claimed the Campbell allegation had somehow leaked to the Atlanta newspaper; they had not intended to talk to the press at all when they visited the President, but someone on his White House staff had told them they should meet the press waiting at the White House as they emerged from seeing Carter. They had only answered reporters' questions, they said, and had denied that Campbell had given the committee any affidavit, as the Atlanta paper reported...
...collars a mugger on a busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass...
...play is extremely cynical in its depiction of a world where greedy and exploitive men are overtly dominant, but scheming and sleazy women capitalize on the weaknesses inherent in the male ego, somehow, they are always the ones left with all the aces up their silken sleeves...
...range problem is often compounded by an additional complication, which the Faculty did not discuss last spring. Somehow, an impressive number of courses listed each year in the course catalogue appear inside brackets, which means they will be given next year--by which time you will have forgotten they exist. That's one of the drawbacks of learning from a faculty that has to take time off for research, it seems...