Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with such unusual theses, many of these students say that months of hard work have somewhat dulled their original enthusiasm...
...will take a perfect game to beat Harvard," Boyce says. "Well, if not a perfect game, then almost a perfect game. The rink in the Garden is a bit smaller than Harvard's used to, so we'll be able to control Harvard's speed somewhat...
...love songs, the group seems to have gotten a little sappier and a little more conventional on Oranges and Lemons. "The Mayor of Simpleton'"s lyric silliness ("I can't have been there when brains were handed 'round or get past the cover of your books profound") is somewhat offset by Partridge's fast-paced vocals, but with its bouncy rhythms and annoying chimes, it's still more of a junior high dance song than the XTC we know and love. Ironically, although "Mayor" proclaims, "Well I don't know how to write a big hit song...
...Ideally, there is a community of interest between sellers, publishers and readers...based on a somewhat larger dedication to reading the printed word," Wilentz said. "The community thrives on good faith...
...reinforced by the rhetoric on both sides. While Shevardnadze warned that the Middle East "could be climbing the unpredictable ladder of nuclear escalation," Secretary of State James Baker asserted in a television interview, "I don't think it's ((an area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President reiterated that the Soviet role in the region "should...