Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pork Barrel. At height of recession flap, Congress rushed through a monstrous pork-barrel (rivers & harbors) bill authorizing $1.7 billion for construction projects, some without engineering studies. An Eisenhower veto brought back a more reasonable bill, which the President, somewhat reluctantly, okayed...
...mood somewhat short of ecstasy, Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr, 44, and five times wed, departed (legal separation) from her latest, Houston Oilman W. Howard Lee, fiftyish. For keeping her distance, Hedy will get $100,000 a year, an additional $105,000 in a lump sum. "I feel sure Howard and I will never divorce," she sighed. "Basically, we are very fond of each other...
...Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light socket). Other times, the clues, and an accompanying cartoon, may refer to persons or sayings. The program is somewhat complicated by such intramural banking as selling one's clues in midshow for a $1,000 consolation prize. The prizes are all highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets to the London production of My Fair Lady, not so much to see the show as to pick...
...Senate bill would go somewhat further than the House version. It would cost an additional $500 million, would give scholarships and other aid for six years instead of four, and would encourage college students to enter teaching by deducting 20% from the balance owed on student loans for each year the borrower taught school after graduation...
...been a fundamental principle of the Honors program at Harvard, but had not always been practiced as such. The program for non-Honors students--those who fail the Sophomore and/or Junior test--was not quite so laudable: the Committee at first recommended special courses for non-Honors students, apparently somewhat pragmatically oriented. This feature was excised after a full Faculty discussion, and the non-Honors program remained but a plea for tutorial for non-Honors Seniors in the Houses (not now offered...