Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposition which could precipitate bloody civil war between the Front and domestic black groups after the fall of Smith. There is enmity between Nkomo and Sithole, and little love lost between any of the moderates and the Front; in fact, even relations between Nkomo and Mugabe have been somewhat less than cordial, and there are hints that the two might pit their armies against each other in competition for total control of an independent Zimbabwe. Neither of the guerrilla leaders will promise to hold elections before proclaiming an independent black-ruled state...
...departmental meetings and asks them to serve on a number of departmental committees; the Committee on History and Literature has separate meetings for the Board of Tutors (including graduate students and junior faculty), and the meetings of the senior faculty affiliated with the concentration. Teaching assignments may also vary somewhat, often depending on the number of introductory courses a department offers. In departments with a greater need for personnel to teach basic courses, many junior faculty cannot spend as much time teaching in their specialized area of interest...
Others express concern that the star system skews the age distribution of senior faculty and overlooks young, potentially brilliant scholars. "The procedures prescribed by Harvard for making tenure appointments worry me for this reason--they may be somewhat slanted against younger people. In my field of English, the younger a person is, the less likely he is heard of outside the university. There might be the greatest Wunderkind in the world and we might know that but outside people won't Perkins says...
...most discussed animal in the universe." A popular subject in anything from sonnets to surgery, she has been serenaded, dissected, romanticized and analyzed by generations of literati, medical men, scientists and students. If these men fixed their eyes intently on the figure of woman, however, the historian remained somewhat more aloof. Usually, in his considered judgement, women were essentially unimportant to his field ('the study of man'), and he dealt with them incidentally...
...acknowledging her scoring totals with a somewhat timid smile, St. Louis is quick to point out her weakness-- or what she perceives as her weakness...