Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, Republicans had picked up the potent support of tight-fisted Democrat Harry Byrd, who figured that 61 Senators were sure to approve; by next year they would be voting for tax cuts anyway. The Senate agreed to vote in time to have the measure on Harry Truman's desk at least ten days before adjournment, thus prevent a pocket veto (i.e., killing the bill by inaction after Congress is out of session...
...piece of high ground north of town, picking up 72-year-old Mrs. Lula Packwell in her wheel chair on the way. At first, Mrs. Packwell was danged if she'd leave, even though the water was sloshing into her living room. But they took her along anyway...
...gone on record against the bill. Senator Vandenberg would concede no more than "an open mind." Even House leaders thought the bill unsound, figured that this was no time to ship away U.S. guns and powder, that to do so might touch off a string of Latin American revolutions anyway...
...last of the grand hotels grossed $16,500,000 last year, more than any hotel ever took in anywhere, and in spite of stiff costs it began to make a little profit. Service began to slip a bit, but terrapin and Irish golden plover was still on the menu. Anyway, Boomer had found that guests now paid more attention to who was in the floor show than to what was on the menu...
...bring his wife and family to Delhi. But then he would have to sell his land. "Who will pay a good price for my property?" he asked. "I tried to sell it recently, but some Moslems who were originally prepared to purchase it now say they will get it anyway, once Pakistan comes into being, for little or no money...