Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversation Needed. The black-robed, bearded patriarchs and metropolitans of Orthodoxy have always been somewhat tentative about their association wjth the World Council. They look with suspicion on the Protestant passion for missions, which they see as a potential peril to themselves, are wary of the proposed merger of the World Council and the International Missionary Council. Said Alexandria's Metropolitan Parthenios of Carthage: "Go slow. I don't know why I fear this, but I fear...
...moon-based songwriter would have his troubles; an obvious rhyme for earth is girth, and in the radiance of earthlight, a moon-maiden's face would shine bluish green. But if science fiction is somewhat short on romance, it does offer today's readers the kind of adventurous, he-man escape from gravity once found in turn-of-the-century western yarns-a commodity not to be dismissed in this day of beatniks and Angry Young...
...Moran has a beard like Lincoln that gives many people the willies. He is built in somewhat Goliath proportions and has the eye of an explorer, like De Soto...
...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said the President to the 95 newsmen at the press conference: "I would hope for a bettering of the atmosphere between the East and the West ... I am trying to do my best to see whether we can't bring about a somewhat better situation in the relations between the two, and maybe he can learn a little bit more about our country, as certainly I can about...
...craps tables. Desperate for something different, Producer Marty Hicks ("I myself don't approve of nudes") turned himself into a kind of subzero Minsky, decided to put nudes on ice. Finding good-looking girls who could skate was no trouble; finding skaters who would work seminude was somewhat more difficult; finding strippers who could also skate was next to impossible. The artistic integrity of the performance (if any) is saved by Leny Eversong, a Brazilian woman of indeterminate age but unavoidable size (5 ft. 5 in., 284 Ibs.). From somewhere between her strawberry blonde hair and her flashing silver...