Word: inasmuch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They kept the "peace" of central and eastern Europe for a few decades-and with it the status quo. Inasmuch as keeping the imperial status quo meant squelching every liberal chick in its egg, the Alliance eventually could not stand against the rise of liberal fervor in Europe...
Said one of the Wehrmacht's favorite apologists, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar: "We started this war with different conceptions from those we hold now. Many illusions were shattered. . . . We realize that such an adversary cannot be knocked out with one blow." Inasmuch as Adolf Hitler conceived the invasion of Russia, this remark constituted indirect criticism of the intuitive Führer...
...Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...
...Personnel are cautioned not to become panic-stricken by the great expanses of corridor (of which the Pentagon has 8 miles). Rumors concerning lost safaris in the Pentagon are hereby discounted, inasmuch as all but one of these safaris have been located and rescued. . . . Trained search parties will be on duty, and all corridor intersections will be patrolled at least once every two days...
...Inasmuch as both the Yale and Princeton Glee Clubs are planning to discontinue their activities for the duration of the war, the Harvard singers will be the only group remaining among the Big Three to carry on formal collegiate singing...