Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this country, of course, we don't have a nobility, the idea having been outlawed by the Founding Fathers (who nevertheless insist on being known by capital letters). Human nature and affectation being what they are, we have naturally produced a nobility of our own, somewhat more transient although hardly less worthy than the British kind. Their lordships were created by the Sovereign, ours by Sam Goldwyn. Theirs try to be seen with the Queen, ours with Joan Rivers. What our crowd lacks in gravitas, it makes up in laughs. Nor has it produced a noticeably poorer class of peer...
...Jumbos nibbled back with lone runs in the second and fourth off Crimson hurler Janet Dickerman, leaving the batswomen with a somewhat precarious 3-2 lead...
Tufts retaliated somewhat in the bottom half of the frame, as Woods scored from third on a delayed double steal. What a prospect: the Jumbos merely had to retire the Crimson in the top of the seventh to escape with their honor...
...chief has not been blamed by most residents for the police problems, and her ready access to community groups has created a reserve of goodwill. But there is a growing feeling that her latest difficulties may leave Portland's bright Penny somewhat tarnished...
...students who have grown progressively more outspoken during the past five years. About 5% of the country's 1 million students are radicals, and some of them even take as their hero Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and call for the removal of all U.S. bases. Their first aim, somewhat unrealistically, is nothing less than immediate unification with the North. As student protests have grown more hard line, government crackdowns have become more hard hitting. The opposition constantly cautions students to be more moderate, and Lee Min Woo recently said that they should leave politics to the N.K.D.P. leaders...