Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wittiest, most serious paradox came from iron-grey, satirical New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin: "We are now in a period of profound peace, which is the last we are likely to have for some time to come. . . . When the war is over, the period which we shall enter will be one of the greatest difficulty and danger...
Pint-Sized Paradox. To the few who knew Al Klein well, his career and his person were a paradox. Born in Germany 61 years ago, he was brought to the U.S. as a child, trained to follow his father in interior decorating. Full-grown, Al was 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weighed...
...rarest occasions, to gag a single one of its members. This has been a characteristic of gentlemen's debating societies ever since the Roman Senate, bored with the obstructionist tactics of Cato the Younger, nonetheless allowed him to filibuster on. Last week Tom Connally explained this ancient paradox in down-to-earth terms: "Those who today may advocate the imposition of cloture . . . may tomorrow be the victims of it. ... It has been suggested that Dr. Guillotine, who invented the guillotine, was himself guillotined by the guillotine...
...Pious Paradox. Author Gayn devotes most of the latter part of Journey from the East to the new China and its new leaders. He believes that Chiang is the only man under whom China can achieve unity...
...paradox is that these low-priced textiles do not exist mainly because OPA has succeeded in keeping prices down. But OPA's victory has also been the consumers' loss, because manufacturers of "low-end" goods, between soaring labor and raw materials costs on one side and inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric...