Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undeniable, of course, that Soviet trickery got the U.S. into a jam. Somehow, I can't get indignant about this trickery, any more than I can about the first baseman who hides the ball in his glove and waits for the runner to take a lead off the bag. In the major leagues, you just don't fall for tricks like that...
From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
...Andover squad looks strong, thanks to its 20-14 victory over the Yale freshmen last week. But if the Crimson yearlings can somehow get their game-legs quickly, a repetition of last season's one sided affair may well occur...
...hosts who have just opened in a new play. One particularly saucy young man tells how Gay (Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established star, when she was a chamber-maid at the Palmer House. (A titter is heard around the stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean to her and is, in addition, a terrible...
...Yorker, who is vaguely aware that New York City is horribly uncomfortable but likes to think of even its discomforts as somehow being the latest thing, stirred uneasily in his stupor last week. The simple matter of taking a bus ride seemed to have got out of hand...