Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Zimmerman won the next game, Speigel made somewhat of a comeback--winning the next three to make the score 3-3. Zimmerman held his serve in the next game and went on to win the last eight points, sealing the set when Speigel sent a return long...
...since he did not even know where the "Jewish centers" were in his native city of Leningrad. He was not considered as an informant on Soviet affairs by various specialist on Mongolia and Mongolian. I have not read the book reported in the Crimson but it sounds somewhat sensational. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
...cars stationed on military bases. If a U.S.-Soviet confrontation loomed, the missiles would be moved out on 180,000 miles of railway across the nation. The main advantage of this scheme is its relatively low price tag: an estimated $12 billion for 50 missiles carrying 500 warheads. A somewhat cheaper option ($8 billion) would shift the existing silo-based MX's to railroad flatcars...
...useful century-wide show of French or American art. The subject, in either case, is too big, various, richly inflected and unwieldy to be stuffed into one trunk -- at least, without the kind of editing that amounts to severe mutilation. But 20th century Italy, like Germany and Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th, Italian painters and sculptors...
Accidents usually accelerate John Irving's antic plots and keep his readers tuned for what happens next. A Prayer for Owen Meany takes a somewhat different approach. Framed by the myth of victim as redeemer, the book removes guesswork without reducing expectations. One knows going in that the mischievous author is staging a kind of "Gospel According to Charlie Brown." But anyone familiar with Irving's mastery of narrative technique, his dark humor and moral resolve also knows his fiction is cute like...