Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country, know the gruesome story: Matthew Shepard, a first-year at the University of Wyoming at Laramie, was lured by two men out of town. They tied him like a scarecrow to the fence of a ranch and beat him to death because he was gay. I know Wyoming somewhat: it can be a violent place, and most people I've met there don't like homosexuals. But the deliberate savagery of this murder, a hate crime, shocked people, because, for the most part, they have what the writer William S. Burroughs '36, adopting a century-old slang word...
...goal was somewhat historic in that it marked the first DeJong has allowed to an Ivy League team. She has recorded eight shutouts this season overall, including five in Ivy League play...
...seven years since, Torvalds' little program has become the center of gravity of a large and somewhat fanatical movement. Programmers love Linux (rhymes with cynics) because it is small, fast and free--and because it lets them participate in building a library of underground software. Silicon Valley loves Linux because it offers an alternative to Sun, Apple and, especially, Microsoft; in the past month Intel, Netscape and some of the Valley's richest venture capitalists have invested in Linux operations. Journalists love Linux--and its Finnish eponym--because his is a story in the classic David and Goliath mold...
...fiercely torn apart as she is in the Weeping Women of those years, but out of kilter all the same, with staring eyes, figure-eight nostrils flared as though in suppressed fright, and strange asymmetries of form around the nose and brow. Compared with it, Impressionism began to look somewhat easy and even insipid to the fast-learning Wynn, and he started to buy more modern work--Picassos especially. He also began to cast a covetous eye on American art, scooping up (among other things) a great and gritty De Kooning, Police Gazette, 1955, along with several later De Koonings...
After the November elections, the Republicans will probably be strong in a weak and somewhat ridiculous country. FRED W. STEUTEL Eindhoven, the Netherlands...