Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacks that followed from the benches of the Left & Right sounded somewhat faint. Their thunder had been stolen two days before by General Charles de Gaulle. He had unloosed a jeremiad denouncing Bidault and offering to form a new government ("I myself am ready"). The London agreement he flayed as foreshadowing the creation of two conflicting German governments and a war for which France was unprepared. He called for renewed negotiations with the U.S. and Great Britain, and failing this, demanded that France go her own way alone. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he cried...
...Then I said, 'Mr. President, I would send for Harry Woodring and I would say to him, "Harry, it is either Dublin, Ireland, for you, or Topeka, Kansas."' The President looked at me, somewhat abashed. Reading his mind, I said, 'You can't do that sort of thing, can you, Mr. President...
Bouncing with energetic plans for her first trip to Paris, Mildred finds it hard to realize that she is somewhat of an old classic. She got a surprise last week when a youngster came up to her after her show and made a confession that many a popular new singer could make: "Mildred, I was brought...
With the coming of war, Buchman's fortunes and following diminished somewhat. Possible reasons: M.R.A. workers' requests for draft exemptions, and publicity given to Buchman's famed outburst (in 1936) thanking heaven "for a man like Adolf Hitler...
...Buchman first urged him to listen for God's instructions, replied: "I have been accustomed to address God myself on occasion . . . but that was only a one-way communication. If God were to speak to me, as you suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler who built a front line...