Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather not say just what those courses are," he declared. "Put it in print and we'd only exaggerate the lopsided situation we will come up with anyway...
...pustulant portrait of Dorian Gray, painted for MGM's movie of Oscar Wilde's novel, stared arrestingly from under a strong spotlight. To keep calloused fingers off moldering Dorian, he was surrounded by a low grey fence. Blurted one housewife, after minutes of careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused farmer, "looks just like a dried up crab apple under my tree back...
Fleabite. In defense of the price boost, Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace struck a querulous note. He berated "the pastime or indoor sport" of blaming all economic ills on the steel industry. "Until we stop raising costs," he said, "we can't stop raising prices." Anyway, he added, the cost of steel was only "a fleabite" in the cost of living...
Certain statements attributed to me are completely unjustifiable. For example: "Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes . . . are . . . a generally unsatisfactory means of travel." Further on: "The airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks." The article is concluded: "Anyway, 300 m.p.h., he thinks, is plenty fast enough." These statements do not represent my views and I doubt that they can be substantiated or inferred from the book [Human Factors in Air Transport Design] unless statements have been taken out of context or distorted by the reviewer's own interpretation...
...American family living in Berlin once appealed to Sauerbruch to operate on their son, desperately ill with peritonitis. Sauerbruch barked: "It will cost you $1,000." He examined the boy and growled: "This is almost hopeless; it's throwing money away." He was prevailed upon to operate anyway. Emerging from the operating room, Sauerbruch snapped: "Not a chance; he will be dead by morning. Please give me the check immediately." Next morning the patient sat up for breakfast...