Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal tooth puller, Eskelund was one of the few foreigners allowed inside the "forbidden city," where, by the somewhat purple account of his son, languished thousands of doe-eyed beauties of royal blood. Papa told Karl: "When I entered their quarters with my foot drill and instrument box . . . a whole flock of them immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese...
Unlike Monday's game, in which there were only five hits, yesterday's contest saw almost every man on each team collecting at least one safety. The fielding, too, was somewhat looser, although most of the aggregate runs of 20 were accounted for by well-tagged balls...
...mile defeat on Lake Ithaca by Cornell, whom the Crimson downed twice at the 2000 meter distance, somewhat justifies Bolles' qualification "sprint" in his latest "best crew" quote. The length-and-a-half Varsity triumph against Yale on the Thames was nice to behold but again the crew did not look as impressive as they did at the Princeton regatta for the Olympic sprint distance...
...points, always implicit in the Truman Doctrine, had been somewhat overlooked in Europe: 1) the U.S. did not want war; 2) only a coordinated program of European reconstruction, with U.S. help,* would save Europe from the Communist advance which the Truman Doctrine decried...
...asked somewhat impatiently...