Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia Woolf, in Orlando, described Britain's legendary Great Frost in the reign of King James I. Last week, no birds froze in flight, no peasant girls were pulverized. But Britain and the Continent were gripped by their worst cold wave in decades. Before it finally eased off somewhat this week, it had seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm...
...Laraine began work on a new picture for RKO. Leo followed her to the set. Between takes, they played gin rummy or held hands. When she was called to the camera, the look between Laraine and Leo stretched like buttered taffy. "I'll be waiting, sweetheart," said Leo, somewhat in the manner of a wife seeing her husband off to jail...
...Zealand (related Keenan) had at first wanted to conduct the trial on the narrow grounds that Japan had violated the rules of civilized warfare, while the U.S. and Canada clung to the Nürnberg view that aggressive war was itself a crime. Pragmatic ex-Gangbuster Keenan somewhat naively quoted Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged, 1943, in an effort to establish a legal definition of aggressive...
...competitive bidding, thus knocking Morgan, Stanley & Co. and other New York bond houses which had fought to bar Young from Alleghany out of much fat business once given them by friendly railroads. By then Young's sandy hair had turned white and his self-esteem had become somewhat Napoleonic...
...issues, get cash needed for expansion. Four days before the FRB announcement, the market had its worst sinking spell in nearly two months. Stocks fell one to ten points; the Dow-Jones industrial averages dropped 2.76 points to 172.49. The day after the announcement, the market, which had recovered somewhat, bounced up, even though margin trading would not actually start till February...