Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When MacArthur planned to hold the first free elections to the Diet (lower house) last spring, Russian representatives on the advisory Allied Council objected. Holding that carly elections would play into the hands of the old, machine, rightist parties and candidates, they asked for postponement. MacArthur went ahead anyway. As the Atlantic Monthly says, "held too soon, the election... put back into power the old industrial, banking, and conservative interests... which had in fact organized the sinews of war." Their Diet has slowed down reform, and left-wing parties are resorting in disgust to demonstrations and strikes while the legislators...
King Gustav of Sweden was finally through with tennis at 88, on his doctor's orders. So he went out shooting in a heavy snow, bagged four pheasants. Hunting, said Gustav, was the second best sport-"anyway, better than golf, which is an old man's game...
...money-saver. Its ad cost only $76,240, gave the catalogue a guaranteed circulation of 1,360,000. For another $22,000, Lionel got 600,000 additional catalogues to distribute on its own. Clucked advertising manager Hanson: "An arrangement like this should solve our problem for a year anyway." Liberty wished it could say the same...
Clerk: No. It's not connected. Anyway, there are no programs...
Amazingly painless" and "I had too much anyway" were comments of blood-givers after their donations yesterday. "Greatest shock of my life," cooed a prissy 'Cliffedweller, "it wasn't blue...