Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho cocked a stained canvas hat over one eye and bellowed: "Yeah, we signed a treaty with Costa Rica. It just puts into writing everything that Nicaragua stands for anyway. No Nicaraguan has to sign a treaty to let the world know he's friends with his neighbors...
...general gnawed a stalk of cane. He spat out a wad, and with it his requiescat on the Caribbean Legion: "That damned legion is out of action, anyway. They couldn't get any more dough from Tio Pepe [Uncle Joe] Stalin, I guess . . . That Costa Rican business was just a guerra de galleticas [cookie war] to keep [President] Figueres [of Costa Rica] in power...
Last week, Amsterdam's councilmen made short work of lopping off the annuity. But to Willem Mengelberg, a senile remnant of musical greatness, it made small difference. Because of Dutch currency restrictions, he had received only about a quarter of his stipend anyway; most of his money came from Swiss investments...
...criticism. On the one hand the Smoker is charged with pulling the Yard together; on the other the Committee says that freshmen aren't ready for "unity" or "orientation" or any other Smoker blessings until the spring term is well underway. By February freshmen are pretty well oriented anyway, and it's a bit late for the Smoker to do much good...
Britain's balky, bumbling Foreign Secretary Bevin had been urged by the U.S. to grant recognition before the Israeli elections last week, in order to encourage the Israeli moderates against the extremists. But Bevin stubbornly refused to be hustled. As it turned out, the Israeli moderates did well anyway...