Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just 41 of the 70 days allotted to it, the state's complacent assembly gave crafty, cocky Governor Herman Eugene Talmadge almost everything he wanted. Grumped an editorialist last week in the Hummon-hating Atlanta Journal: "Thank Heaven, I still have my liver and lights." The Atlanta Constitution, somewhat friendlier to Hummon, drew a deep breath and said: "On the whole the legislature did a good...
Howard Koeper may know a great deal about architecture, but his attack on the planning and interior decoration of the Lamont Library seems hardly justified in view of its functional success. The architects' lack of imagination is somewhat balanced, as in Littauer and Houghton, by efficient interior design...
...drew the fire of Russian propagandists, who yelped that some of his remarks were "gross and rude slander." He helped fashion the so-called Truman Doctrine and warned Congressmen: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world." He planted a seed in a speech at Cleveland, Miss., which, somewhat to his astonishment, blossomed into the Marshall Plan...
...lonely child. Once a tornado whirled her from her parents' porch in Friend, Neb. to a nearby cow pasture. "I was somewhat worried by the cows," she recalls. "I found the storms of nature friendlier than the whims of living creatures." Her teacher noted that "she always expects people to like her." Anna Louise Strong soon discovered that a lot of people did not like her. Says she: "I became very friendly with...
Next day the DuPont Co., maker of nylon, issued a somewhat huffy communique. Strong acids "degrade" (weaken) nylon yarn, and soot particles sometimes contain enough sulphuric acid to do the deed. But it does not happen often. Except to a few uncommon chemicals, DuPont insisted, nylon is at least as resistant as silk, rayon or cotton...