Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...
...utilities in the U.S. Before the plan went into effect, Loewenstein mysteriously jumped or fell from a plane over the English Channel (V.E. is sure he fell). But Emanuel, backed by the Schroders, who had been Loewenstein's bankers, and A. C. Allyn, among others, went ahead anyway. They fixed their sights on the multi-millioned Standard Gas & Electric System. Altogether, they ante'd up about $60,000,000 and formed the U.S. Electric Power Corp., a holding company with Emanuel as president to take over Standard Gas. But Emanuel & friends couldn't get control because...
Geologists shrugged at all the stir. Nature would wipe out the falls anyway in a scant 12,000 years...
...bequeathed nearly $1,000,000 to Harvard, specifying only that it be used "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism," Conant sounded out newspapermen in half a dozen cities. They agreed with him that $1,000,000 was not enough for a first-rate journalism school, and that, anyway, a journalism school might not be the thing newspapermen needed most. It was Conant's idea that the money should be used to give about a dozen newsmen a year a chance to study at Harvard as "Nieman Fellows," take whatever courses they liked. The plan has brought prestige...
...news photographer's life is not always a happy one - as A. P. Photographer Allen Snipes can testify. On election day in Tupelo, Miss, last July, he asked Representative John Rankin to let him take a candidate-voting-for-himself picture. Rankin said no. Snipes snapped a picture anyway. As he walked away, the Congressman jumped him from behind, ripped off his shirt, scratched him, snatched his camera, tore out the film. Result: no picture...