Word: remarkably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Overseers are also too fond of common sense opinion. In referring to faculty problems and over-size classes, they remark, "We are prepared to accept the commonsense opinion of one of the students that 'Once a class gets bigger than fifty it may as well be a thousand.'" Although the student they interviewed probably has a lot of common sense in most matters, it is questionable how versed he is in problems of teaching. Most educational journal articles and educational texts on the subject disagree; dozens of university faculty members who have been interviewed since the report was published...
...white pajamas. Barry, in maroon pajamas, suggested that Jil's visit was untimely. It was. After that, declared Jil, Susan came at her with bared talons, a wooden hairbrush and a lighted cigarette, finally ripped the buttons off her blouse. Said Susan later: "She made an insulting remark, and it infuriated me. I went toward her, and a wrestling match ensued . . . I'm red-haired and Irish, you know." After swearing out an assault-and-battery complaint against Susan, Jil, whose good fight had done her movie career no harm, purred testily: "I don't want this...
...settings bare and shabby as they may be, are actually quite suitable to the situation of the drama, and the same sort of remark about the costumes can be excused in the same manner. Nevertheless, the staging seems at least to suffer from the same element of slapdash that injures the whole...
...with Khrushchev on a terrace overlooking the Black Sea, and companionably discovered that he and Nikita were as one in many things. German unification (both against), a European "security" pact (both for), etc., etc. According to Nenni, the closest they came to discussing Italian politics was a casual remark of Khrushchev's: "And, by the way, how is Togliatti feeling these days?" Nenni rather implied that Khrushchev was just being polite-Togliatti has yet to receive an invitation to Yalta, or even to Moscow, from Russia's post-Stalin bosses...
...Remember?" In addition to spreading his influence beyond the Treasury into other departments, Humphrey has-to the surprise of many of his friends-become a considerable politician. When Defense Secretary Wilson made his widely criticized "bird-dog" remark during the congressional election campaign of 1954, it was Humphrey who took charge of strategy on minimizing the damage. George Humphrey, it has been noted in Washington, is quite nimble at keeping his foot out of his mouth...