Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates has raised the tone and self-awareness of the speakers. If the networks established a pool system and followed certain rules of discretion laid down by the House management, the system would surely produce something better than the somewhat stolid and formal self-portrait that O'Neill suggests...
...distributors want to "roll in," or average out, the higher priced imported LNG with the price of domestic gas, currently held by federal regulation to $1.48 per 1,000 cu. ft. tops. That would hold down the price somewhat, but force the vast majority of customers who will not burn imported gas to pay part of the cost of supplying LNG to those who actually use it. That is indeed the basis on which the first LNG imports have been sold, but Energy Secretary James Schlesinger has denounced the plan as constituting a subsidy for imports. He favors "incremental" pricing...
...sweetness and light left Yankee newcomers somewhat bewildered. Remarked Backup First Baseman Jim Spencer: "Every day I keep looking around for someone to take a swing at someone else, and I haven't seen it. Considering what I read in the paper last year, I'm surprised." Reserve Catcher Fran Healy, last season's peacemaker, laughs off such wretched expectations: "There's not as much shooting here as in a Clint Eastwood movie, but we do our best...
...such movies go, Crossed Swords is somewhat above the norm. Adapted from Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, it recounts a highly satisfying story in an amiable fashion. Though Screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser has replaced many of the novel's jokes with vaguely risqué punch lines of his own, he has preserved the book's theme. By the time Prince Edward and London Slum Boy Tom Canty reclaim their rightful identities at the movie's end, the audience has been stirred by Twain's passionate devotion to democratic ideals...
...approaching call of spring, however, beckons every golfer from his secret grotto. Yesterday, Harvard golfer Spence Fitzgibbons and I furtively crept out way across the Eliot House courtyard and teed up a Titleist before the banks of the Charles. I performed the functions of Spence's caddy, looking somewhat like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...