Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stripped of his pink sport shirt and shaded by a white pith helmet, he nevertheless found fishing a good way to sit and loaf. Loafing was his chief objective and he got a lot of it done. He kept his weight level by frequent swims off the fantail of his yacht Williamsburg (he uses a side stroke to keep his glasses dry). And he managed to do almost no work. He signed a few documents, put off until this week everything that required anything more than his signature...
...Angeles rallies, to lure money-heavy political angels into glittering banquet rooms. A bright, diminutive 35-year-old ex-newspaperwoman named Hannah Dorner, who affectionately calls ICCASP members "glamor pusses," handled most of its promotion stunts with a hardheaded competency in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, overlooking Broadway. Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes...
...Hardheaded. Despite these somewhat vague attachments of some of its members, ICCASP nevertheless has some hardheaded political thinkers and seasoned politicians who know what they are driving for. Best-selling novelist Howard Fast (Citizen Tom Paine, The American), who writes for the Communist Daily Worker and New Masses, writes ICCASP's handouts. Jimmy Roosevelt was once its executive director for the West Coast at a reputed $25,000 a year; but he broke with the Committee over the left v. far left wrangle in California politics (TIME, July 29) and is now the chairman of the less turbulent California...
...Some time ago we heard a story to the effect that some Armenians in Turkey were applying to a foreign Consulate to express a desire to emigrate from Turkey. This we looked upon [more] as a rumor than a probability. Nevertheless, we announced that if there were any who wished to go, the Government would accord them every facility. Many weeks went by, but there were no applicants for passports...
Despite its admitted good work, the Council nevertheless has fallen so far short of what an organization working and speaking in the name of all undergraduates should be that it hardly deserves its name. Rather it should be designated as an undergraduate investigating body, which, as certain crises in educational policy arise within the University, has prepared reports for the President and Faculty...