Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of U.S. foreign relations was somewhat erratic last week. It was hopelessly inept and confused on the problem of Palestine. But, by & large, the nation kept its eyes pretty well fixed on the main goal, which was peace, not war-but readiness...
...George Marshall's or the Administration's responsibility exclusively. The whole U.S. shared in it. Originally the Administration's policy had been somewhat cynical and politically opportunistic. But Washington could always argue that it had reflected the sentiments of most of the people. The Administration had yielded to Zionist pressure. But Senator Robert A. Taft and Governor Thomas Dewey had also demanded partition...
...stage had ended just a week after Bob Lovett was first approached last March for the Under Secretary's job. Those were the bewildering days of false hopes and gradual disillusion in the face of Russian obstruction. This short and costly era was ended somewhat hysterically by the Truman Doctrine, the first official recognition of the cold fact of Russian aggression, and the first official evidence of U.S. determination to meet...
King Paul I gave a gallant but somewhat naive interview to" a newsman from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I don't think a [general] war will take place in the near future," said the king. "But in the unforeseen event of foreign aggression, Greece will defend herself to the last man independently of outside help, and if we have to fight alone we will...
...cannot adapt themselves to a new condition. Human beings, for example, have specialized in brains. If humans are destroyed because of their own super-smartness, rats may eventually take their place as the earth's dominant species. They are more adaptable than any other animal, and are somewhat like the primitive, generalized mammals that inherited the earth at the close of the age of reptiles...