Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the others, she had managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water...
They were just as confident that somehow or other the nation's defenses would be adequate to cope with Russia's bomb. Anyhow, that too was something to worry about later on; the possible personal consequences were hard to visualize. It took a while, especially in the heat of the baseball pennant races and the cool beauty of the early autumn, for the full meaning of either situation to sink...
...Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli once a year but that's all," Toodie is no longer...
...book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible is full of dramatic stories and fascinating characters. When Presbyterian Harte asked his friends & neighbors, they agreed that biblical characters are awe-inspiring, all right, but that somehow they are just not like people in real life. Bible-Lover Harte began to think about how to make them more...
Gradually the jitters passed. Somehow, the girls managed to sort out their bags, then moved on to the waiting taxis. Only one had to run back for her pocketbook...