Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walrus- an animal featured in the album- as a symbol of death. One Beatle is portrayed in a walrus suit on the front cover, and the song "I Am the Walrus" ends side one. LaBour made the unsubstantiated assertion in his story that "walrus" means "corpse" in Greek- somehow. It has also been rumored that the walrus is an Eskimo symbol of death, but LaBour says that he has studied the Eskimos and knows of no such symbol...
Miss Prag nodded. "I think the whole world is younger today. I think women think of themselves as girls very late. The word 'girl' has a somehow more universal ring to it. And not only that-young people are really the pace-setters today. They put on mini-skirts and then the mothers started raising their hemlines. I think it's a softer, more feminine image-the girl-than the woman...
...this Administration the outpouring of voter protest," declared Eugene Weisberg, a Denver industrialist and lifelong Republican. Reports Harold Willens, Western-states chairman of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace: "In the last two weeks, businessmen are suddenly ready to give money, and to do whatever they can. Somehow, deep down, Americans are beginning to realize that Richard Nixon is Lyndon Johnson." Nixon is not, of course, but some of his critics feel that Nixon's apparent disregard for public feeling on Viet Nam may come to parallel Johnson...
...custodians of servicemen's clubs, were said to have skimmed $350,000 a year from club slot machines in Germany and used the money to set up their own company, Maredem, Ltd., to sell supplies at inflated prices to clubs in Viet Nam. Maredem's partners, who somehow managed to get transfers as a group, became custodians of the clubs in Viet Nam. Thus they, allegedly, sold goods to themselves. In 1968 alone, Wooldridge was said to have made $34,454 from Maredem, the others $44,574 each...
...biggest TV surprises since his New York Jets won football's Super Bowl. Television, after all, is already surfeited with football, with talk shows and lowbrow entertainment. The Playboy After Dark series, by another TV interloper. Hugh Hefner, is all pretension and forced fun. Yet somehow, as U.S. viewers discovered in the premiere last week, Joe's show had an insouciance, a spontaneity and a genuine joie de vivre that even congenital Namath haters must have found infuriatingly engaging...