Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Addressing the military aspect of such a strategy, Luttwak suggested "putting some more forces back on the East-West chessboard. We should not do it with pawns such as ground troops but with queens and bishops, like high-technology weapons." Agreeing with this somewhat, Hyland nonetheless wondered whether such a move would be politically feasible. He said that "we Americans do not like long, protracted struggles or conflicts. So we are constantly driven to find some simplistic solutions-SALT, détente and others-to the problem. But there is no easy or quick substitute for being prepared to confront...
...seeking in order to achieve a declaration of principles with Egypt, sign a first-stage peace agreement and work toward ultimate settlements with the other Arab combatants. This could result in a reduction of Israel's own security position in the West Bank and make the country somewhat more vulnerable than it is at present, but it could also lead Israel to permanent peace and a new relationship with its neighbors, particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Washington, for one, is convinced that this is Israel's only course, that it must make concessions now if it is ever...
...verdict was thumbs down. Henry Kissinger did not like the portrait painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox. One viewer thought it made him look "somewhat a dwarf," and another pronounced it "a rogues' gallery thing." Not surprisingly, the Government, which had commissioned the art to hang in the State Department with Cox's portraits of former Secretaries Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk, rejected it. "We felt that the portrait lacked Mr. Kissinger's expression-the dynamism which exudes from him," said State Department Curator Clement Conger. Cox will be paid $700 in expenses...
...basic idea becomes somewhat clearer with an effort to visualize it. The theory requires one to imagine an arrangement of geometric surfaces at different levels and a point moving along one surface, until suddenly it plunges to another surface. The plunge of the point marks the convergence of the conditions that give rise to such catastrophes as war, riot, chemical explosion, deodorant failure. In Paulos' application of the theory to humor, the surfaces represent levels of shifting meaning, the point becomes the leading edge of a joke, its plunge signals the punch line...
...weekend of rest and relaxation did wonders for the Crimson, as the racquetwomen loosened up on somewhat soggy courts and beat the Duke subvarsity, 7-5, with a strong performance from the middle of the squad...