Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beach, our child prodigy sports-editor and I collaborated on the headline story, that gave some of the basic facts. Sixteen players, including the entire defensive backfield, two prominent running backs, and most of the defensive line had contracted the disease from three somewhat loose coed cheerleaders at a party in Providence, which is in Rhode Island, five weeks before...
...course, we needed a piece on the Harvard reaction, which was pretty easy to do, Yovicsin would be somewhat skeptical, and would oppose the move because the game was such a massive social event. The players wouldn't like it a hell of a lot either Scott Jacobs wrote a piece on the indignant reaction of the cheerleaders, and Southwick speculated on the chances of the NCAA rules committee allowing Yale to play alumni, including Braian Dowling, in place of its syphilitic varsity. Somehow, the disease changed to gonorrhea, which is after all, a little messier and a lot more...
...context they function somewhat as does the prologue to Henry V, as an apology and craftsman's argument: "What the hell, if you really want to wait sixteen years come back and see if we're still here." But they also meant: "This play's message is timeless, and its people are such as have lived, live, and shall live...
Most of the audience stuck it out for the full five hours, though few of the speakers seemed to make much of an impression. Coretta King, Goodell and McGovern made thoughtful if somewhat predictable speeches. The afternoon's high point came not from reasoned advocacy but from litany. Pete Seeger, Mitch Miller, and Peter, Paul and Mary led the crowd in chanting a single refrain over and over: "All we are saying is give peace a chance...
...royal family has already been economizing somewhat. To avoid the high prices of London food shops, the palace has begun purchasing food from a military commissary. Only last month, Philip sold his 63-ft. yawl Bloodhound. Whenever the Queen moves from one residence to another, she takes most of the staff with her to avoid having to keep servants at several places...