Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial as a hurry-up affair, marred by an inept defense and an inexperienced judge in a lynchlike atmosphere. Crucial facts, such as fixing the time of death, were botched by his attorney. The case against him, Smith suggests, was founded on shoddy police investigatory work and was somewhat in the nature of a frameup. The actual bases of his many appeals for a rehearing and retrial, which have kept him alive these many years, involve improper trial procedures and the applicability of the Supreme Court rulings regarding forced confession and post-indictment police interrogations...
...their memory. If Miss Alexandria seems not entirely real except to his eye, what matter? Affection, especially in much of modern literature, is a rare commodity. Like the loyalty of a husband to an unattractive wife, Richter's affection for this Main Street Auntie Mame ends up being somewhat touching...
...everyone involved was waiting for the Friday meeting of the Board of Regents. Reagan forces had captured control of the Board in 1967, and even Unruh seemed somewhat afraid that they might over-react...
...football coach John Yovicsin was looking for answers at Saturday's intrasquad scrimmage, he must have come away, as most of the sun-baked spectators did, somewhat disappointed...
...While somewhat of a paper organization at this point, the NDC will meet in Minneapolis in early October to build and organize; in December a general conference to plan policies is anticipated. If the NDC lives up to its founders expectations, it will be a major force in shaping policy when the Democrats take up the role of the opposition this January. Only later as 1970 draws closer will its partisan electoral nature become more noticeable...