Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never been involved in a game like that," Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "I'm not going to underplay it. It's somewhat devastating from an emotional standpoint...
...that required knocking heads in Sacramento and left both Democrats and Republicans crying in the aisles, wondering what happened to the mousy pencil sharpener who was long ridiculed for having the perfect first name and a series of those anonymous government jobs like lieutenant governor and controller, which are somewhat like assistant manager at the K Mart. "It was 'My way or the highway,'" says a Democratic legislator who had run-ins with Davis early on and found out that the buttoned-up, innocuous-looking Davis could cuss like a sailor. "Sharks are gray too, aren't they?" asks...
...Hays Sulzberger became publisher and arrived in that position with such "haphazard and incomplete" training that he admitted feeling "frightened and alone." After his retirement, his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos took over. He had come to the paper from a seat on the stock exchange but had been somewhat more carefully groomed. Tragically, he died young, in 1963, when his diseased heart failed following a bitter strike that shuttered the Times for 114 days. Dryfoos' untimely death foisted the top job at the paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, the only son and youngest child of Arthur Hays...
...Barker Center has created "an attractive common space where we can all be situated in proximity to each other as opposed to our former condition of being scattered around several somewhat cramped buildings...
...matches we lost, we lost somewhat decisively, but we put up a really good fight," Wyant said...