Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN, by Lonne Elder III, is a somewhat spindly and melodramatic play about a Harlem family. What makes it bearable is the superior performances of the players of Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company...
...event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...
...institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
...instance, that environment operates as a threshhold variable in affecting development. Below a certain minimum threshhold of environmental benefits, the genetic potential of an individual does not develop, and cannot be considered an important variable in determining IQ. But Jensen never quantifies the threshhold level. He merely indicates, somewhat arbitrarily, that minority-group students are not below it. They very well might...
...that night was a sophomore guard named Billy Kahn who had been leading the team in scoring. Evidently he is now back in Ward's good graces because last week he was again the leading point man, in Brown's narrow loss (58-52) to second place Pennsylvania and somewhat bigger loss to Princeton...