Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streamlined look of the new models had not been accomplished without certain annoying disadvantages. Some roofs were so low that a medium-sized man had to take off his hat to sit down-a phenomenon which caused Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy to dash off a critical cartoon for the benefit of the Society of Automotive Engineers...
...Lieut. General Leslie Groves, wartime chief of atomic development. General Groves was sure that Russia "and its misguided and traitorous domestic sympathizers or stooges" had tried hard to get vital atomic information. Had Russia been successful? Said General Groves: "I imagine that it was successful to a certain degree. You never know what the other fellow finds...
...citizen's infatuation with his flashy, curvaceous, chromium-loaded postwar car was wearing a little thin. Once he had been madly certain that she was the only girl for him. Now he was discovering that she was a trifle touchy and craved expensive beauty treatments. Automobile clubs in various cities and the American Automobile Association were hearing his sputtering complaints...
...automobile had totaled $462 million dollars. It rose to $577 million in 1941, sank to an average of $490 million a year during the restricted war years. But in 1946, hand in hand with other costs, it jumped to $814 million, in 1947 to $995 million and seemed certain to be more than a billion dollars...
...Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before his death. Both George Marshall and Ernie Bevin backed the plan; it seemed certain that the Assembly would adopt it. Both Jews and Arabs objected, but they sounded more moderate than usual...