Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOLD VENTURE-"The program's potential for harm may be lessened by the bad acting, the bad writing and absurd story line that deaden somewhat the impact on the viewer...
FROM the special viewpoint of portrait painters, which might be defined as hungry-eyed, U.S. Presidents in general have shown one serious weakness: they dislike extended portrait sittings. And by the same token artists are apt to strike Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter...
...their targets for next year. The party's communiqué put the blame for the false figures on "lack of experience in assessing and calculating output," and gloomily blamed the lowered output on bad weather, and the fact that reaping, threshing and storing "were all done in a somewhat hurried manner...
Last week U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs Henry Kearns, a former California automobile dealer, gave a blunt answer to the question. Such fears, he told the Toronto Board of Trade, came as a "shock and a surprise" to Americans, who have been "perhaps somewhat naively proud" of the part U.S. capital has played in the economic development of friendly nations -and particularly in Canada's postwar boom. Since 1953, he said, for every dollar withdrawn from Canada as an investment profit, U.S. firms have reinvested more than $2 in Canada's long-term growth. They...
...view, while arresting, is often somewhat unsatisfying. "The practice of coitus," declares Jones, "was familiar to me at the ages of six and seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment...