Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revival of Islam has been gathering force for more than a decade. Islam is no Friday-go-to-mosque kind of religion. It is a code of honor, a system of law and an all-encompassing way of life. To be sure, religious observance varies somewhat from country to country and person to person. Nonetheless, to the average Muslim, his faith is much more in evidence in everyday life than is Christianity to people in most Western lands. On Fridays, the Muslim sabbath, life comes to a halt in the factories, the marketplaces and the public squares. Men assemble their...
Carr squired his team to the seaside New Seabury Country Club in Cape Cod, a 7200-yard-long layout of rollicking fairways that looked like a replica of an enchanted Watteau watercolor. The linksters found the landscape somewhat less than sublime as only one player in the 28-man field could break...
...resistance made her entrance into collegiate tennis somewhat uncomfortable. Richmond says she felt left on the periphery of the Harvard unit--one that had its share of internal conflicts aside from the friction accompanying Richmond's entrance...
...this season of rain the linksters pine for the first hint of spring, when they can remove their dusty clubs from their winter quarters. The first shot of spring has a mystical significance as the golfer stands on the tee looking somewhat like Keats' "stout cortez" as he surveys his shot sailing over the unsullied fairway...
...would say that the whole field has lost its international forward movement," Eckstein said yesterday, adding, "somewhat like chemistry...