Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That he would ever desert the Axis, as Italy deserted the Kaiser in 1915, B. Mussolini has many times emphatically, indignantly denied. Nevertheless, last week's pressures by Britain and France were in precisely that direction, and they were truly great pressures. Count Ciano's Foreign Office became almost the full-time habitat of British Ambassador Sir Percy Loraine and French Ambassador André François-Poncet...
...tried to persuade the Government to adopt Nazi tactics of persecution. The Jews, who live for the most part in ghettos and who persistently wear the black coats, beards, yamilkes (skullcaps) and haircuts the Tsars forced on them many years ago, have not had a happy time in Poland. Nevertheless, Poland's Zionists last week declared that 3,500,000 Jews "wait in full preparedness" to do their part in defending the country...
...right. It tells its bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is human in his contradictions. He coolly plans the assassination of Tsarist generals and police, but is tormented by puritanical scruples in his love affairs. A deadly foe of Tsarism, he nevertheless wins a medal for his zeal as a railroad construction boss, becomes a patriot in the War, gets to believe in democracy only after intellectual torment...
...last the bombshell broke; the Pact was signed. All the world had predicted it, all the world had known it all along; but all the world was nevertheless profoundly shocked and surprised when it came...
...finalists, the two who had survived the week of sizzling heat, drenching rains, frayed nerves and menacing bugaboos were: San Antonio's 20-year-old Betty Jameson and Atlanta's 19-year-old Dorothy Kirby. Youngest finalists in the history of the national tournament, they were nevertheless old hands at the game. Willowy, green-eyed Dot Kirby was women's champion of Georgia at 13, champion of the South at 17, had twice reached the second round of the National. Sturdy, stolid Betty Jameson was champion of the South at 15, won the Texas championship four times...