Word: virtually
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pretty Well Read. After the interrogations, Dean lived in virtual isolation with several Korean-speaking guards. Once in a while he had a visit from two Communist correspondents, Alan Winnington of the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' L'Humanite. At first, not allowed to read, he passed the time by doing mathematical problems in his head. One favorite exercise: squaring all the numbers from i to 1,000. Later he was given Communist books-the works of Lenin and other Red scriptures-to read. "I'm pretty well read on Communism," said Dean wryly...
...Wanzig, 42, of Chicago. Judged by the standards of his high-paying profession, his average under-the-counter traffic was modest: seldom over $35 a day. But his clientele was loyal and steady. As a patient-orderly at Chicago State Hospital, a 385-acre mental institution, Wanzig enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the betting of 5,000-odd potential horse players...
Many people believe that the chemical industry is dominated by a few giant companies whose research laboratories have a virtual monopoly on new chemical wonders. The man who has disproved this is Henry Reichhold, the world's biggest maker of paint & protective-coating resins. Last week Reichhold Chemicals uncorked one of the biggest chemical advances that the paint industry has seen in years...
...next twelve years Adenauer was a virtual prisoner in his home at Rhöndorf. "I became a very good gardener," he says. Twice the Gestapo arrested him, but he was treated as an Ehrenschutzhäftling (honorary prisoner) and released unharmed. But Adenauer heard and saw enough of Gestapo brutality to feel bitterly ashamed of his countrymen...
Vienna-born Movie Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger was asked to come to Manhattan to straighten out a little matter with his exwife, Marion Mill Preminger. She wants $48,800, which she claims is due her under their 1949 separation and alimony agreements. While she endures a "virtual hand-to-mouth existence," he lives high off the hog, she charged. "It is no secret that [he and his second wife] enjoy an outstanding reputation for lavishness in entertainment...