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Word: somewhat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stern is much kinder about her male clients, who, it seems, are somewhat old hat in actually "trying to please women in dating and courtship." They are shocked, she says, when women they are introduced to "come on too strong sexually." She recalls one thoroughly offended man blurting after his first date: "She jumped me." And women are complaining there are no decent men left out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Make Me a Perfect Match | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Seeing as this was the third straight year I had lousy seats at the Yale game--at the Yale Bowl last year, I was seated in the first row on a concourse of moving people--I grew somewhat irate and began to vocalize my displeasure with my fellow section mates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game Seats | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

REAGAN FOR RUSHMORE, read one of the last signs held up by the adoring crowds. "Did you see it?" asked his spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Reagan ducked his head, smiled somewhat sheepishly. "I'm not ready for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is the Vice President's Night | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...eggs their bad reputation may have been wrong to begin with. Using newer methods of testing, researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven have found that conventional eggs contain between 172 and 232 mg of cholesterol, instead of the 274 previously measured. That would place them somewhat closer to the count of Rosemary Farm eggs. So even if the brave new eggs have yet to reach the neighborhood market, Americans may feel just a litle less devilish the next time they reach for a deviled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Something To Cluck About | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...fitting had he gone on to Michigan. The first time I saw him was two years ago, at about 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in New Haven. A little drunk, and very cold, I was with a group of friends of mine from high school, parading in a somewhat ridiculous pack-like fashion through a dark and uninviting city...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Michigan, Coach Bo and The Game | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

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