Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Couve de Murville - When I was listening to our colleague with my invariable interest, but this time with occasional astonishment at some of his particularly categorical judgments, I wondered why we Westerners had ever taken the trouble to draft this plan which we hoped in good faith might at least be discussed . . . [Mr. Gromyko's] reply moves me, indeed, to remark, adapting a French saying, that in discussion with the Soviet delegation, we pay for our past concessions...
Impassive? Interested? On the appointed day last week, a royal limousine called for Adamski and whisked him to the palace. For the benefit of the Queen, he repeated some of his adventures, told of a California girl he knew who eloped with a Venusian and was never seen again. Each distinguished gentleman present had his own version of the visitor's reception. "The man's a pathological case," said the Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Heye Schaper. Said President Cornelis Kolff of the Dutch Aeronautical Association: "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject...
...been dashed (see box). No corporation can own land in Cuba unless all stockholders are Cuban; no foreigner may buy or inherit land. If U.S. sugar companies do not sell out within a year, their land will be expropriated and paid off in 20-year government bonds bearing 4.5% interest. According to Castro's estimate, made on a television show, the bond payments would range from $15 to $45 per acre, just one-fourth what the land was worth a year...
...show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October at a fat U.S. TV salary. Entertainer King might even be able to cash in on the craze for westerns. His two-year-old daughter, as a result of his interest in Indian lore, is named Cheyenne...
Once the trustees have taken a vote, the job of buying or selling stock is turned over to longtime Market Trader Almore Thompson, who works through more than 200 brokerage houses. In order not to upset the market in a stock that has captured M.I.T.'s interest, Thompson often executes orders over a period of several weeks or disperses them widely. M.I.T. never puts more than 5% of its assets into one company, or more than 25% into one industry. Since it buys for the long pull, it is not bothered by short-term fluctuations. "When the market turns...