Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considers himself a man of the world: "Moscow is heroic," he will remark, jocosely, "but Paris is the joy of living." Ho Chi Minh is a kindly man, it seems, who calls his associates "Little Brother," while they call him "Uncle Ho." Yet Uncle Ho, it also seems, keeps his favorite Swallow's Nest-a rare and expensive delicacy made from the saliva of sea swallows-in his room so that he will not have to share it; he keeps Philip Morrises in one pocket for himself and passes poor local cigarettes from another...
...with this remark the coach clenched his fist, took a long pull from his flask, and started to enter the locker room. "Anything else, Coach?" I asked...
...middle of March two public statements--a resolution and a careless remark--were mainly responsible for starting the controversy. The resolution came from the Undergraduate Council, Princeton's equivalent of our Student Council. It called the Administration's dismissal of Heath a "manifestation of its indifference toward undergraduate life," and demanded an examination of the college's counselling service, the dean's office, and the state of student-faculty relations...
Pudgy Ed Turner, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Maryland's First District, paused for an instant in his speech to an Eastern Shore audience one day last week. Then he got off a remark that, on the surface, seemed singularly unexciting. Said Turner: "You know how I stand on our traditional way of life here on the Shore." His listeners immediately began stomping the floor, broke into wild whoops and hollers of approval. For the Eastern Shoremen did know how Ed Turner stands; he stands foursquare for the continued segregation of whites and Negroes in Maryland schools...
...within earshot, a farmer sidled up to Byrd and asked: "What're you going to do about the shines?" Said Curly: "Keep 'em out!" When the nearby reporter said he was going to include the exchange in his story, Byrd blew up, flatly denied having made the remark...