Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not Matthiessen realizes he is caught in this bind of his own making is unclear. He does, however, know that though he walked away from Crystal mountain a somewhat changed person he didn't walk away a transformed man, as he set out to do. He knows that the snow leopard confounded...
Faught opened the scoring for the Crimson with a pretty dodge and shot after eight minutes of a fairly lackluster first period had elapsed. Although Harvard's talented defense completely shut down the somewhat disorganized Ephmen attack and the Crimson monopolized the ground ball market, the team had taken no less than 19 fruitless shots before Faught finally broke...
Crimson coach Carole Kleinfelder said yesterday the Wellesley zone defense made scoring somewhat difficult, adding that freshman Annie MacMillan whizzed 14 shots on goal, but only had one tally to show for her strong effort. MacMillan notched a game-high two assists for the laxwomen...
Opponents of the death penalty appealed the death sentence four times, to no avail. Finally, last week, Evans' mother went to the high court. Justice William Rehnquist, a supporter of the constitutionality of the death penalty, somewhat grudgingly put off the execution to give the full court a chance to hear Mrs. Evans' arguments. When her son got the news, he wept and said, "I will have to go through all this again." At the earliest, Evans could go to the chair...
Last week, a somewhat chastened Administration asked Congress in effect to overturn the Stanford Daily decision. Saying that the ruling "poses dangers to the effective functioning of our free press," President Carter submitted a bill that would impose a virtual ban on police searches and seizures of a reporter's "work product," which means his notes, drafts, tapes and film. The bill would protect not only journalists but scholars and authors-anyone involved in disseminating information to the public. The ban permits two exceptions: police can still make surprise searches for material held by someone who is suspected...