Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, Americans, including members of the United States military, like to see themselves as somehow above the dirty business of terrorism. A prime example of this attitude is the U.S. condemnation of the recent Israeli abduction of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, the leader of one of the Lebanese extremist groups holding Westerners hostage. Such a moral stance, while fine in a vacuum, fails to take the reality of the situation into consideration...
First there are the blond-haired good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...
...countrymen, Takako Doi is clearly different, even at first sight. At 5 ft. 6 in., she is tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make...
Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
Bush said, "Somehow there has got to be areturn to decency and honor, even in matters ofthis nature...