Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third day of the long wait, Press Secretary Ross took pains to point out that the signing of actual surrender terms would take two or three days and that the President would not proclaim final victory until the last formality had been completed...
...mental conditions; no medicines are necessary, only reasoning and will power. If a person has proper food in his stomach, he should confidently say to himself, "I am not sick." But the stomach is moving around in a manner which on land would indicate that there is actual illness. Then he should say to his subjective mind, "I am aware of an unusual motion, but it is the motion of the craft; do not let that suggest you into thinking it is the food, which I know to be perfect...
...Before Hitler, when the Germans were working only half of their productive capacity, they lived better than most Europeans.) In the actual division of reparations, Russia deserved to fare well. She fared extremely well. The industrial resources in the areas of old Germany given outright to Poland and the U.S.S.R. were not counted as payments against Russia's total bill. Russia alone would get the equipment in her own occupation zone...
...picture's decor is not just the usual glossy set of illustrations, it is lively and eager in movie terms. Hollywood's streets, outskirts, diners and small bars, with which the picture is liberally sprinkled, give it the special vitality of actual time and place. And the film is capable of poetry as well as naturalism. (Sample: a subtle slowing of motion to heighten the sinister mood of a scene in which the neurotic writer, in order to torture his wife, tosses poisoned food to some flying gulls...
...Alger was the most prolific writer who ever lived. (He published about 130 books for boys, at least two novels for girls and several books of bad poetry, besides some earlier pamphlets. But most of the books were short, averaging 55,000 words by actual count; his total production was about 7,000,000 words. Frederick Dey, author of most of the "Nick Carter" series, ground out more than 21,000,000 words...