Word: anyhow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaves are a good substitute for soap. Soap "deprives the body of fat," anyhow, and it is better to take a lot of soapless air baths...
...Japan has no better customer than the U. S., and is the U. S.'s third best. To get on Japan's good side, argue the protagonists of this plan, it would be worth swapping away spheres of interest in China, which, they say, are already lost anyhow...
...dark fog of secrecy in which the Government carried on its war. When war began, Canada set up a Bureau of Information to handle official news, then suddenly abandoned it, let each Government department appoint its own press officers. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who had never liked press conferences anyhow (he once complained: "My every word is seized upon!"), promptly abolished them...
...when City of Flint reached Haugesund, it dropped anchor anyhow. Norwegian officials went aboard and asked why the Germans had disobeyed their decision. "Orders from my Government," said the prize chief. Norway at once interned the prize crew, released City of Flint to her captain to go wherever he had a mind (see p. 16). He headed for neutral Bergen to wait for the political nor'easter to wane. Germany, in a great show of fury, protested to Norway. Norway coolly rejected the protest, with a review of the case which made it look very much as though Germany...
...compromise." Result: The Russian demands were pared down. > When one Baltic Minister brought up the question of what was now to become of Communists whom Baltic States had jailed, Bolshevist No. i answered: "What you do with your own Communists is your own business. They are Trotskyists anyhow. If you must, shoot them, and if you can't handle them, I'll help you." > Once Dictator Stalin remarked: "You know, Communism has not worked here so well either...