Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relief and reconstruction. It receded when the militarists took power, but began to rise again after the war. Dumpy little Noriko Awae, who sings the blues several shades lighter than her U.S. sisters, was soon a national figure. Yet in the last two years the blues have faded somewhat behind a blaze of boogie...
...there were a few exceptions-new models, as it were-which caused somewhat the same sensation as if Citroen had brought out a futuristic Kiddie Kar. They were eleven paintings which came straight from the nursery of the villa at Vallauris, where 6y-year-old Picasso and Franchise Gillot, his handsome young mistress, live with their two children, Claude (two) and Paloma (five months...
...They Are Not Forsaken." East of the Iron Curtain, the decree has a somewhat different purpose and effect. The Vatican said that the decree was designed to give Catholics in Communist lands "the sensation that they are not forsaken, but spiritually supported by the whole Catholic world...
Only Twelve Tones. "Everything I have done so far has been working toward this," Kurt Weill said last week. Everything began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...
...eleven years, Chicago's hulking, six-foot-two Dave Garroway, 36, has traveled from NBC page boy, amateur astronomer, Navy ensign and staff announcer-to broadcasting eleven hours a week over Chicago's WMAQ. On each of his four radio and TV shows Garroway exhibits a somewhat different facet of his extravert personality...