Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors and nurses at the south London hospice it had been a wrenching weekend. Twelve patients had died between Friday and Sunday nights, and by Monday morning death's wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: "How was your weekend?" "Are you exhausted?" "Are you coping...
...would such a woman, an Oxford graduate and the daughter of a wealthy London real estate agent, choose to devote her life to death? One answer is her religion. Converted from atheism as a gawky, somewhat gauche, young woman, she went through a period of evangelistic fervor, during which she was a Billy Graham counselor, before she finally settled into the Anglican church. Her faith created much apprehension among doctors when St. Christopher's first opened. "We suspected she wanted to produce deathbed conversions," says Consulting Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes. "How wrong we were." Insists Dame Cicely: "There...
...staff over the years, she has been known to be somewhat less tender: often brusque and occasionally imperious. Dr. Anthony Smith, who trained at St. Christopher's and is now medical director of a hospice north of London, recalls that an interview with Dame Cicely was "like going to the headmaster's study." Others complain that she has been slow to adapt to new needs, particularly the admission of AIDS patients. "She simply wouldn't allow an AIDS patient to breathe on St. Christopher's," says one observer. Her views have changed, but she still insists that any AIDS patients...
...slight for football, he concentrated on golf, somewhat to the exclusion of grades. Then he went off to small, nearby DePauw University, where he played more golf, joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and earned grades so mediocre (a D in his major, political science) that 13 years later, the faculty initially voted to deny him an honorary degree, although it subsequently reversed itself...
...civil rights. There is no doubt that the Republicans missed the boat somewhat on trying to advance civil rights. The problem we have is: Where are you going to use the Federal Government? Conservatives are very reluctant to use Government regulations, which makes them seem anti-civil rights. Yet they would use the Government to outlaw abortion. There are stark inconsistencies...