Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long, Long Ago. In equally airy fashion, Khrushchev abandoned the Communist contention that the Western powers had no legal right to maintain forces in Berlin. In one offhand remark designed to render needless all the careful legalist arguments Western chancelleries were preparing, Khrushchev said, "We recognize that they have these rights that stem from the capitulation of Hitlerite Germany 14 years ago, but that's a long time ago." If the West did not voluntarily surrender these rights, he warned, Russia would sign a separate World War II peace treaty with the East German Reds. Then-by Russian logic...
...which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...
...success of "Wonderful Town" is due to the many Harvard men who were involved in the production. Were it not for their help the show might well have been but another Drumbeats disaster. We would, therefore, like to apologize for any misunderstanding that may have resulted from this remark, and here thank the better half of the show. Vivian Thomas Kyra Gordon Jane Hallowell Louise N. Bell Carola Kittredge Harriet S. Popham Susan Colt Doolittle Sophia Hencken Jill Kneerim Thalassa P. Hencken Frances Fitzgerald Anita Rolnick
...palace he was waylaid by waiting members of the M.N.R. Youth-a Siles-supporting branch of the government's National Revolutionary Movement-and all the magazines were stolen. A day later two La Paz papers ran translations of the story, including the point that the remark was in jest, but the official government newspaper La Nación banner-lined: TIME, THE FINGERNAIL OF IMPERIALISM'S VILE CLAW, OFFENDS BOLIVIA. Next morning 2,000 blue-jeaned high school students marched through downtown La Paz chanting "Down with imperialism!" and "Bolivia will not be a Yankee colony...
...move came as a surprise, because only one day earlier, Federal Reserve Board Member M. S. Szymczak told a Washington audience that the Fed might have followed a tougher money policy were it not for the 4,700,000 U.S. workers still unemployed. His remark was interpreted to rule out any quick discount hike, and the bond market spurted up on the strength of it; after the announcement, the market slipped back again...