Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...openly and actively engaged in the management of Maserati. No bankruptcy petition was ever instituted against Maserati or us; none of the company's assets have been impounded, and the Argentine and Spanish governments have lived up to their engagements towards Maserati. We have never offered an interest in Maserati to Juan Manuel Fangio, the famous Argentine driver, and we continue in active control of the company...
There Van was a favorite of his teachers and a good, although never brilliant, student. His only major interest besides the piano was acting (he still talks vaguely of going on the stage). He was excused from physical education classes because of the damage they might do to his hands. Says one of his contemporaries: "He never had any trouble having a good time. He was a good dancer. He was one of the most congenial boys in school." But Van was also as much a maverick in smalltown Texas as he was later to seem on the international concert...
...when Schill worries, people tell him it comes from his own sense of guilt. But he sees the whole town buying wildly, on credit; and when he tries to run away, he finds an obstructive wall of townspeople at the railway station. In the clutch of material self-interest, the town goes in for moral self-deception, until at a public meeting Schill is condemned to death. With a billion-mark check for his killers, and with Schill's coffin borne before her, Claire goes away...
This has been repaid in full. Interest at the rate of 6% was charged...
...real victim. She falls prey to a peculiarly horrifying variety of lupus, a disease that leaves her skin pocked and blotched. Nature turns the tables on 18-year-old Isa, too. As the mother fails, the daughter blooms. From Isa's great hate for Maurice blossoms, first, interest, and next, fascination. One midnight, when the slip-clad girl goes downstairs to fasten a banging door, she is waylaid by the panther-ishly urgent lawyer. Next morning she tries in vain to scare up her conscience: "You have a lover. You slept with your stepfather...