Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Infantry Division was airlifted from Fort Riley, Kans., the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division arrived from Fort Carson, Colo., and the 2nd Battalion (Ranger) of the 75th Infantry came from Fort Lewis, Wash. The exercises were the first large-scale test of "interoperability"-coordination of the somewhat different communications systems, tactics and equipment used by the alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles, provided cover for West German tank units and were directed to targets by West German officers. Old tricks were also polished, like dropping a Sheridan light tank from...
Psychobabble, says Rosen, is the official dialect of the narcissistic cult of candor that is tyrannizing the culture. The language "is difficult to avoid and there is often an embarrassment involved in not using it, somewhat akin to the mild humiliation experienced by American tourists in Paris who cannot speak the native tongue." According to Rosen, self-help and sex books, instant therapies and self-improvement courses like est purvey psychobabble in pure form. The problem is not just that psychological ideas dominate national conversation, but that psychobabble is a deadened tongue with no words to express "the paradoxes...
...Otto Eckstein, a Harvard professor and president of Data Resources, Inc., a producer of computerized forecasts (TIME, Sept. 26). He predicts a 4.8% advance in G.N.P. for all of 1977, and an average increase of 5% in the first half of 1978. Eckstein foresees that the economy, after slowing somewhat in the second half of next year, will be spurred by the $15 billion tax cut envisaged in President Carter's tax-reform bill and will register a gain of 3.5% for the whole...
...value-judgment spouting, semi-literate mouthpiece of the additive lobby. You've got to read it to believe it. It does everything from quoting the "prestigious New England Journal of Medicine" paraphrasing Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes entirely out of context to in-pugning that "health faddist, Gloria Swanson, somewhat better known at that time (and before) for her dramatic abilities." It was people of Swanson's ilk, we are told, who had to spoil it for everybody: they lobbied for that silly Delaney Clause (banning any amount of known cancer producing additives from food consumed by American human beings...
That is certainly a colorful, if somewhat inaccurate, description of the two leading lights of the much-feared and respected Providence cross-country team. In fact senior John Treacy and his precocious freshman teammate Gerry Degan are far from being even remotely antagonistic. Both hail from the same town in Ireland--Waterford (pop. about 35,000), that is, the county seat of Waterford Co. (pop. a little more...