Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before they knew it. two Syrian MIG 17 jets swooped down in an "aggressive" pass. Dalgleish plunged the royal plane earthward, hedgehopped for 20 minutes as it fled back to the Jordanian border while the Syrian MIGs, flown somewhat amateurishly, made five more "quarter attacks" at the plane, but without firing. Landed safely at his capital city of Amman, King Hussein turned to Dalgleish, grinned: "Let's have some breakfast...
Sophomore Tom Singleton, who won the starting assignment at this position midway through the season, is also in somewhat questionable shape. Singleton sprained his ankle two weeks ago and did not play in the Princeton game. He returned to contact work in practices this past week, just in time to reinjure the ankle...
...tape and maybe some novocaine, too, will get Singleton onto the field at kickoff today, but just how long the ankle will stand up is somewhat in doubt. If it goes early the Elis will have to rely on a couple of jayvees named Kugler and Welch at the crucial quarterback spot...
...Schlesinger, Jr. Warns against a priggish approach to the man. Mr. Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, grants him "talent, and a wonderful voice." To Professor John K. Galbraith, "He was clever and articulate, and had both an audacious sense of humor and a highly developed if somewhat indiscriminate imagination." Professor Oscar Handlin sees in the man "a certain kind of charm, and a lot of blarney...
Some have sold their property and disbanded, and of the nine fraternities which survice, two, St. Elmo and the Fence Club, have abandoned their national associations. Somewhat embarrassed by the pedestrian character of these national connections, several fraternities have made abortive attempts to become independent, and two others are about to try to denationalize. The financial and doctrinal pressure of the national chapters rankles on "fraternity row," and St. Elmo's, for example, declared itself independent after the mother chapter deplored its snobbishness and disrespect of frat pins...