Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Somewhat unnerved by these developments, Wadsworth proceeded to allow a walk, a single, a hit batsman, another single, and another walk--in that order. The Crimson kicked in with a fourth error, and when the dust had settled, Brown had a five-run lead...
...which appears to a greater or lesser degree in most of the other pieces, but which is most effective in these two. There are a few more of these simple poems which for some reason don't quite come off; one which vaguely tries to describe the creative process, somewhat like MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and is similarly feeble, and another which uses love and the sand and the sea to point out a slightly commonplace bitter-sweet moral...
...sorry--I was already tied up," the ex-President told newsmen, with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek...
...British Crown (though not the Commonwealth), his hosts in nearby Conakry, the capital of Guinea, decided to give him a 21-gun salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean army, a banner waved over their heads saying: "Vive I'Union Guinée-Ghana!" But last week...
...Touch of the Poet. The late great Playwright Eugene O'Neill makes a powerful if somewhat windy case for his favorite belief, i.e., illusions make and unmake...