Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supina landed at La Guardia Field, stepped out and waited to be arrested. When nobody showed up to seize him, Supina was somewhat embarrassed because he had no bus fare. He borrowed some cash, made his way to Connecticut and waited patiently while what the press described as a "manhunt" went on. The next day he walked disgustedly into a newspaper office and gave himself...
...A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...feared by all the other kids, who sang a song "composed of two syllables, the only ones he could pronounce . . . From beneath [his] red shirt he extracted a succession of sounds [by putting his right hand under his left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home I set myself with zeal to imitate this music-so often and so successfully that I was forbidden to indulge in such an indecent accompaniment." That was Stravinsky's first brush with rhythm...
Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...
...last Olympic torch, in 1936, was carried by a succession of more than 3,000 runners from Olympia to Berlin. This week the roads to Berlin were somewhat more difficult to traverse than those of ancient Greece...