Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest to many only as someone who is so disgusting that there is a fascination in waiting for the next blunder that will erupt from the irascible Mr. Paar...
Last week's Topic A was zoning. Adroitly, Commissioner Howse drew from a witness an admission that Commissioner Stevens had been privately consulted on a city zoning matter in which he had a possible interest. "It's just another attempt to smear me," retorted Stevens, whose nerves were already jangled because his vending-machine business is in deep trouble with the state sales-tax authorities. "I would hate to bring up the thousands of people who have conferred with Commissioner Howse on matters like this." Mayor E. E. Baird banged his gavel, declared the meeting in recess...
...Easton ... I read La Dame Souriante in French, and I admire your courage in doing it." Easton (edging away): "I'm sorry. Miss Lovelace, but we are fully cast." But a minute later she bursts into his office to say, "Thank you for taking such a personal interest," and while she's at it, she takes time to bestow her condescension on a famed actress (Joan Greenwood) who happens to be there. The actress, who does not seem to appreciate these attentions, returns them gracefully: "The theater's gain is Macy's loss...
...giants as the First Boston Corp., Kaiser Industries and the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. Rykens carefully avoided both governmental assistance and the oil industry, which might have aroused Arab resentment, then tried his idea on the Middle East last fall. When he received a solid show of interest from businessmen and found no opposition from Arab governments, he decided to go ahead...
Bikes & Business. MIDEC's main function, says Rykens, will be to bring together Arab businessmen with capital to invest and Western outfits with the necessary know-how who will be willing to accept a minority interest. Tentatively. Rykens has set a ceiling of 40% for Western financial participation. MIDEC will concentrate initially on small industrial enterprises such as paper mills, breweries, fertilizer, bicycle, textile and chemical plants. However much Arabs distrust the West, Rykens thinks they still respect Western technological ability enough to make the plan work...