Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Trouble. Over Europe, just as we saw the first flak, we had a little trouble. The skipper said "Number Four engine is actin' up, but I'm gonna take her on, anyway." He feathered it a while, then unfeathered just before we hit the German border...
...Stands for Ads. What are ads? Movie ads are tempting and alluring advertisements which entice you not to miss the pictures they are advertising, but in spite of which people go to see the pictures anyway. . . . The most gifted ad-writer of them all was Magnum J. Naphtha...
Said a puzzled broker last week: "People have been waiting for a reaction. When it doesn't come they get restless and buy anyway." He was talking about a phenomenon that baffled but delighted brokers last week. For three days more than 1,000,000 shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. More, the market turned in the best Saturday (680,320 shares) since last September. Net result: a three-and-a-half-point rise in the Dow-Jones industrials average, to a six-month high...
That credo is hard to link to any coherent political philosophy. Its main focus is on that maze of human emotions that is known to theoreticians as the race problem. It combines practical common-sense proposals for bettering race relations (which intelligent Southerners do anyway) with doctrinaire opinions on what is wrong with Southerners (and what they should do about it) that irritate most Southerners...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's verbal permission to film the gates of one of New York City's Jewish cemeteries for the same film, got a telephone call from the police captain of the cemetery precinct. He said no pictures could be taken. M.O.T. took the pictures anyway, and police took the names of the camera crew...