Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polling booth. "You fellows all set?" he asked amiably. The babble was deafening. Dewey blew his nose, flicked something out of his eye, and disappeared behind the curtain. He emerged grinning. After Mrs. Dewey voted, he remarked: "Well, that's two votes we've got anyway...
...first figures on the big Scoreboard were jarring. Pundits explained soothingly that it was only the big-city vote, which was expected to be Democratic anyway. But the first faint chill swept over the gathering. The totals on the board mounted, the minutes dragged into hours, but the Dewey landslide still had not begun. At 11:30 Brownell appeared again, proudly announced that Dewey had carried Philadelphia (he was wrong-Truman did, by 7,500), and flatly claimed the election...
...Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next to Ana Pauker she was probably the leading woman Communist in Europe. By last week, after Leino had openly criticized Russia and suggested that the Communists use less violent tactics, Hertta had had enough. She picked...
...astute Wall Street Journal jump to the conclusions that the Journal's decision "is expected to foreshadow a reversal of the upward trend in magazine advertising fees"; and that subscription sales, as well as newsstand sales, were "sliding." But A.B.C. figures showed this was not true-not yet, anyway...
...case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was. He grandly offered to solve any cipher that his readers sent him. People sent him dishonest ciphers-i.e., those which a correspondent could not have readily deciphered even with the key. Poe solved them anyway. His critical essays, that seemed so ill-tempered to his contemporaries, now seem merely honest and forthright. In general, posterity has agreed with...