Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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corrective education disguised as comedy. Fiona French's timing is not exactly Henny Youngman's. and the practical joke that a nobleman plays on a sculptor is somewhat short of hilarious. But her illustrations make shrewd use of the quattrocento palette and the faces on old coins. If Dante had ever written a children's book, these are the paintings he would have wanted in the middle of the journey...
Speaking in a nationally broadcast press-conference, Carter also said that he was "somewhat discouraged" by the slowdown in Mid-East peace negotiations, but added that he thought the peace process was experiencing only "temporary setbacks...
...THIS SOMEWHAT paranoid view of the world is not irrelevant to what is wrong with the Moynihan school of thought about international politics. By now, after we've witnessed some of the missteps and inconsistencies of the Carter administration's human rights policies, it should be evident that the attempt to translate values into policy must involve a careful process. It should mean distinguishing between values, deciding which ones we want to emphasize, and then examining how each might be rendered concrete in ways that promise lasting effects. This, in turn, requires a sensitivity to other peoples, and the specificity...
Ohira, the 68-year-old secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party, was characterized by experts as somewhat more moderate than Fukuda, who has been prime minister since...
...women's swim team opens its season this evening strengthened by a large group of freshmen. The team is somewhat green, with some early injuries and just a pre-season meet under its belt, but Clarke, tonight's opponent, is a new team and should break the swimmers in nicely...