Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave. Her official gifts to her hosts in Kuwait, Bah rain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were sterling silver salvers engraved with a picture of the royal yacht Britannia. The Guardian estimated that the salvers probably cost between $4,000 and $6,000 apiece, adding somewhat cattily that Britain's "balance of payments on the transaction looks extremely healthy." Still, as the paper observed, "it's the thought that counts...
...much for the good news. Even as the supply shortage begins to look somewhat less menacing, the familiar and appalling threat is looming of yet another price rampage by the other members of the 13-nation OPEC cartel. Now as in 1973-74, the danger is that rocketing fuel prices will aggravate inflation, force governments to fight back by clamping down on domestic growth, and for the second time in a decade plunge the world economy into an oil-greased slide...
...that failed to honor its contract commitments. But no serious moves have been made in that direction. Instead, at week's end, Ashland Oil Co. disclosed that it too had grabbed up a load of Iranian crude, and at a price that the company would only describe as "somewhat higher" than prevailing OPEC charges...
...slavery. In Charles Chestnutt's work we see a literature of Realism, and in the work of Richard Wright we see aspects of Naturalism and, later on, attempts at existentialist ideas. In Toni Morrison we find a complex attempt at socio-psychological realism, which attempts to examine in somewhat clinical terms the nature of psychic dispossession, of which Frantz Fanon spoke so eloquently...
Vastola switched mentors after coming to Harvard. In the careful hands of Yugoslavian-born coach Branimir Zivkovic, after faltering somewhat as a sophomore and junior, he has continued to develop. He admits that "until this year it's been an uphill struggle, a battle to maintain consistency." This year Vastola has been virtually unbeatable...