Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, from her Manhattan hotel suite, Arline announced that she would contest her husband's divorce. Bob, said Arline somewhat crossly, was using the Connecticut courts "as a tool to enable him to exchange one wife for another." Lana promptly backtracked. She could under no circumstances announce her engagement "to a man who is not free," she said...
...Temporary Commission on Korea left for its destination. It faced a mixed reception. Cried the Russian-controlled radio in Northern Korea: "[The commission] covers up ... sinister, aggressive ambitions. . . ." An organization called the "League of Koreans Residing in Japan" attacked the commission in somewhat overheated English. Verbatim excerpts: "Of course we are still feeling our respects for U.N. efforts in each their positions in achieving to establish a complete independent Korea but ... anyhow seeing from the past experience and the present situation there is little hope...
After the fuss and fairy that preceded Mr. Truman's message to Congress the message itself was somewhat of an anti-climax. That it should carry political overtones is not a mater for either astonishment or condemnation. That it should be too mild for some tastes and too strong for others is only a further indication of the innocuousness of the speech...
Henry Wallace as a dissenter, the thorn in the flesh of complacent conservatism, has been performing a function that is socially useful even if somewhat upsetting to his onetime associates in the Democratic Party. As a Presidential candidate, he has laid himself open to another kind of criticism. Even if his sincerity is beyond question, there may be some doubt that he has chosen the most politically expedient method of achieving his ends...
...each thing is remembered in a sense by God, and each is "prehended," taken account of and thus preserved, by all that comes thereafter. Each of us is naught but a series of somewhat closely related actual occasions. No one of us is permanent, no one of us is duplicatable, no one of us is forever without effect on everything there will be. We are internally richer, more intense than other beings perhaps and occasionally we may have a flicker of a consciousness denied to others, but in principle we are like all other beings. Like all else...