Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, 'Well, we'll see who is going to win.' I said to him, 'Well, Mr. Hiss, I hope you realize you are competing with a woman.' Then one of us, I don't remember whether it was him or myself, said 'Whoever is going to win, we are both working for the same boss...
...pool's estimated 18 million barrels had been sucked out. Though the Placerita boom had knocked the price of crude oil from $2.16 to $1.53 a barrel in Los Angeles, onetime Con-Man Yant and many another were getting rich. Yant was also insisting, to whoever would listen, that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money out here," he said. "But do you know what? I don't give a damn...
Turning on the Motors. After a month of such stumping, Gonzalez' coalition of Radicals, Liberals and Conservatives was properly aroused and ready to slap down the plotters whoever they might be. Leaders of the three parties answered his call for a conference. Affable and confident, his dignity regained, Gonzalez now talked not of plots but of the peso. He wanted everybody's help, he explained, on a plan to save Chile's world markets by revaluing the peso and at the same time keep living costs down by clapping on new taxes and controls...
Whichever site is chosen, whoever finances it, the coming of a steel mill is an event that all New England can look forward to eagerly. It may well be the end of the gradual slump which this area has felt since the textile shutdowns in 1921; possibly, New England can one day rival the midwest in basic industrial strength. As one commenter put it, "When New England gets a steel mill, it will begin a new era of leadership in American industry...
Somebody dubbed the little group "The Flying Squadrons." They move throughout the city on a sound truck and alight upon precinct after precinct, ringing individual doorbells and selling their candidate to whoever answers. They are all well-trained and courtcous; as students, they figure it is their business to know the questions that people might ask, and to be prepared to answer them...