Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plane-builder Howard Hughes, had turned up some gaudy ore. It glittered with headline names, beautiful girls, fantastic expense accounts (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week, the committee went deep into one of the abandoned mine shafts of history, guided by big-time World War II administrators and brasshats and-somewhat unwillingly-by a Hollywood pressagent and a President's son. It found more...
...Charming." His bald pate shining under the committee's klieglights, rubber-faced Johnny Meyer said that he had indeed known Elliott Roosevelt more than somewhat. All the time Roosevelt had been out looking at planes, Hughes's Meyer had been at Elliott's elbow, pouring on the treatment. The night that the final Roosevelt recommendation went to Washington, Johnny had treated Elliott to the tune of $106.50 at Manhattan's swank night clubs...
Rich Hindus sometimes seek to insure a happy reincarnation by endowing pinjarapoles-hostels for aging and infirm cows. But it seemed unlikely that Hindu India would outlaw cow slaughter. Mohandas Gandhi, a cow protector from way back, explained somewhat cattily: "India is a land not only of Hindus but of Moslems, Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Jews. If cow slaughter can be prohibited in India on religious grounds, why can't Pakistan then prohibit [Hindu] idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds...
...similar critique of prevailing styles Miss Lois Salsgate, Middlebury alumna, confessed years of proximity to the University had somewhat inured her to the Crimson approach. "Every Harvard man I've seen," declared Miss Salsgate, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and the posture to match...
Possessed. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin and flashes of good moviemaking do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June...