Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more American aid in the event of a Communist victory. Whether this sort of interference is helping is a matter of speculation, even though it serves to refute the Communist assertion that American aid will continue no matter who wins, Chances of a victory of the anti-Communists were somewhat bettered by the offer of the Western powers on March 20 to return Trieste to Italy. The gain lies more in the fact that the West best the Russians to the offer, than in its support for this old national claim...
...make the money go around. Her fictitious bank account is a comforting (if non-existent) reserve, and next to Mama, the Bank is the most wonderful thing in life. Uncle is also wonderful (well-played by Oscar Homolka) for he tells off all the persnickety aunts; but he's somewhat terrifying and always drunk...
...appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
However, since history, in the spring of '48, was not putting its challenge to the West with the somewhat artificial simplicity of a questionnaire, some theoretically thorny questions might not have to be answered for a while. Or time might make them easier to answer. Said a Frenchman, in angry pessimism: "As things are now, a Russian army could be in Paris within eight days. . . . What really counts, besides the Marshall Plan, are the Italian elections...
What were the most important freedoms? In the west of Europe people differed somewhat in the answers they gave to that question. But the answers showed, essentially, how much people thought alike...