Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aware, not overly ideological court. The decision is an "act of judicial statesmanship," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "The decision will go down in history not for what it did but for what it didn't do." Added his colleague Paul Freund: "The very fact that it is somewhat fuzzy leaves room for development, and on the whole that's a good thing...
...return, Crawford was released in Moscow in the custody of Ambassador Toon. During his 15 days in jail, his precise job with International Harvester Co. had been somewhat inflated in Moscow...
This god's-eye view tends to blur more than it clarifies. "English settlement ... came somewhat later than depicted," says an exasperating prefatory note to Chesapeake, which also mentions that Steed and Turlock are invented names, "but it did occur at a spot only 23 miles to the north." Fiction with heavy doses of reality and reportage is not precisely history; history in which the names and places are not quite right is not yet fiction. Falling between two schools, Chesapeake is less than some of its parts: an agreeable, disposable epic destined for the summer beach, the fall...
...regime and the people invested an enormous amount of pride in the preparations for the huge and complicated tournament (games were played at two sites in Buenos Aires and in four provincial cities). Somewhat to the surprise of some European journalists, who came expecting blood in the streets and confusion and incompetence in the arrangements, the great soccer carnival was run with efficiency, and the prevailing mood was one of warm hospitality. A foreigner walking through the swarming center of Buenos Aires was in danger of being danced with, and no visitor could escape being asked by young schoolgirls...
...talks become deadlocked, the mailmen may strike next month. That would be illegal, but the Postal Service is so worried that it has drawn up crisis plans to have important mail such as Social Security checks sorted and delivered by the military, including the ROTC. There is also a somewhat remote possibility of a railway strike early this autumn if a new contract cannot be achieved by the time the federal mediation period expires...