Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was the soul of middle America when he greeted the astronauts. Peering through the glass window of the quarantine van, he cried: "Gee, you look great!" He inquired whether they knew the results of the All-Star game. He chatted on and on, with somewhat feeble witticisms about asking the astronauts' wives for a date (coyly revealing that he really meant a state dinner). While there was a certain unpretentious charm to it all, it was also an awkward performance, and its triviality was strongly at odds with the solemnity of what had been accomplished. To describe...
...that could have offered help for the more certain, if more distant safety of his friends. "No one knows what his own breaking point is," says Dr. Max Sadove, professor at the University of Illinois Medical School. "It is different at different times for different people." Nevertheless, it remains somewhat difficult to accept the thought that Kennedy's state of shock could have allowed him the rational move of calling on his friends for help and giving them various instructions but would have prevented him from making the equally rational move of instructing them to call the police...
...member of the referendum group estimated that somewhat over half the 9000 signatures were collected in door-to-door canvassing throught Cambridge during the past two months, and the remain der from stands in Harvard and Central Squares...
Racism was never as extreme in Cuba as here, though, so the problem is somewhat easier. And I get the impression that there still hasn't been a complete elimination; for example, some people still frown on mixed marriages...
Most participate, at least somewhat. However, voluntary labor on a part-time basis is regarded as in interim measure for coping with the labor shortage Social pressures a sense of patriotism, or loyalty to the revolution can motivate people to do most jobs, but some are simply not very rewarding. Such...