Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important of the island's defenses is the air force. On the airfields which dot Formosa's western coast, some 300 operable aircraft-fighters, bombers, transports-are ready to fly. But most military observers doubt that the air force can remain in operational condition longer than six months without U.S. spare parts and technical advisers...
Cianfarra's dispatch discreetly ducked the obvious question: Did Ingrid look as if she were an expectant mother in her sixth month? For a colleague, the Timesman had an answer: not at all. That at least threw some doubt on Louella's arithmetic...
...them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated to raise a doubt in the jury's mind: Wadleigh said that he might conceivably have seen eight of the documents while he was in the State Department...
...doubt if we ever changed anybody's opinion about anything . . . Perhaps people modify or intensify or otherwise alter their opinions by something someone else has said or written, but basically opinions are like fingerprints: they never change, and no two are precisely alike in every respect. The height of art is to create in people's minds an involuntary and unconscious alteration of belief. You can't change an opinion by attacking the opinion or the holder thereof, or by praising and ballyhooing an opposite opinion. Opinions are changed from within, never from without...
That Comedienne Channing is now heading a smash hit there can be little doubt; nevertheless, she is often the sole support of an ailing show. Where Blondes gets hold of a good thing, it suffers from Lorelei's belief that you can't have too much of it; even without a good thing, it follows the same general line...