Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually out of the country when the latest blowup happened. Both State and Defense Departments agreed that he had done a good job on his short tour, that his personal competence was not in question, but that the overriding consideration was a happy Iceland, where U.S. troops and the somewhat diffident Icelanders could get along together. Moreover, with the Communists offering a challenge in next October's Icelandic elections, State decided that General Pritchard was expendable. In turn, the Air Force handed him a juicy new assignment: commander of the New York Air Defense Sector...
...Somewhat bemused by all this, the 17 U.N. representatives accepted their flowers and settled down in Vientiane's decrepit Settha Palace Hotel and the firetrap Somboun Hotel, emptied for the occasion of its usual tenants-dancing girls and prostitutes. By general admission, the task before the fact-finders was roughly like trying to plow...
...completed last week in Edison, N.J., by two brothers, Thomas Jr. and James Swales. Said Tom Swales: "You practically need binoculars to see from one side to the other." What the bowlers also saw was the latest sample of how the bowling boom has changed the once smoky, dusty, somewhat disreputable hangout for men into a family and community recreation center. Edison Lanes not only offers special promotions for women bowlers and cut rates for children, it also opens its meeting rooms free for Boy Scouts and teenagers, plans to add a nursery...
Concentrating on Rome's first 40 years, about which virtually nothing is known beyond the legends handed down by Livy and Plutarch, Duggan sketches a fascinating if somewhat too breezily modern story. The Rome of 8th century B.C., as described by Duggan, sounds very much like a common European caricature of the 20th century U.S. Rome is slow to war. and quick to extend aid to an enemy once he has been beaten. Its conglomerate citizens-Latin farmers, Sabine hillmen, Etruscan renegades, Greek exiles-are swiftly shaped into a conforming whole; they dress and act alike and are fond...
...powerful Teuton transparently called Edda Norse, and the story has a conscious Germanic flavor and a fine not to say exciting Wagnerian ending. Saturday Burial is written in the same half-understanding, wide-eyed manner as Blankmeyer's Victory Over Japan, but less skillfully. The development is somewhat mechanical, and the events which should happen spontaneously seem to be plotted by an all-too-visible hand. Yet the story has its fascinating aspects and is well above standard Cambridge fare...