Word: tad
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Huchra, who is the Doyle professor of cosmology, said he was “a tad surprised” to find that Astronomy 145 was among the “introductory courses” highlighted by yesterday’s report...
...They are moving slowly, maybe a tad more slowly than we expected,” Lucey said. “We’re just starting to think about buildings and site plans...
...voice may have been a bit raspy, his gestures a tad stiff and tentative, but as he greeted Chinese President Li Xiannian on the sun-drenched South Lawn last week, Ronald Reagan inspired pride rather than pity. The welcoming ceremony was the President's first formal event since leaving Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he underwent major surgery for cancer. Standing at attention beside his guest while a Marine band played the American and Chinese national anthems, the 74-year-old Reagan gave credence to the reports of his splendid recuperation. Nonetheless, the ceremony was shortened to 15 minutes so that...
Unfortunately for Klimkiewicz—a third-year player, let’s remember—the regrettable sequel to that freshman season makes things a tad more complicated than that...
...theatre was filled to capacity the night of Chihwaseon’s screening, and the audience included a sizeable contingent of Korean-speaking patrons. This linguistic divide proved a tad discomforting during the question-and-answer session that followed the movie: Kwon-taek’s replies were often witty and poignant, but his translator (Professor Kyung Hyun Kim of the University of California Irvine) struggled to keep pace with the director. Often, by the time the English-speaking audience had received its version of the directors comments, the Korean-speaking filmgoers were already in stitches or gasping with delight...