Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America, its effects for good or ill. The speech was more professional and better drafted than almost any he has delivered -thanks to fitting in the White House speech shop. There were, for example, no such gems as "an effete corps of impudent snobs." If the prose was somewhat more finished than in some other recent Agnew performances, the tone was still truculent, occasionally intemperate and bullying. "I'm not asking for Government censorship or any other kind of censorship," he protested. But he noted pointedly that television stations are subject to federal licensing...
...your father and your mother, you exercised thrift and you saved-you saved for a rainy day." Today, "we really don't know ourselves. We haven't had time in the past 60 years to stop and get acquainted with ourselves. Our youngsters have idealisms which are somewhat grander in proportion-namely, the brotherhood of man and world peace, and those are difficult to get into action...
...other four Crimson harriers-Pottetti, Mike Koerner, Erik Roth, and Howie Foye-did not start as well, though. Towards the end of the race they moved up somewhat to hold off Penn State, but by that time Villanova was out of reach...
...wrote. "It is more to the point that every government has the electorate at deserves; for the orators, of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will. Thus our democracy moves in a vicious circle of reciprocal worthiness and unworthiness." A prominent Boston doctor goes somewhat further. "Bostonians are basically thieves," he says, and they always put people in office that they can identify with...
...Brown contest is a must game, and for a squad that has always unconsciously regarded the Bruins as somewhat of an emotional breather, it will be difficult to prepare psychologically for the sort of enthusiasm with which Brown will approach the game...