Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplied free by UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA's goal a reality [but] it is our considered judgment that...
...Nevertheless, the people and their Congressmen kept their fingers crossed. Many still feared that the worst was yet to come. But the week had brought meaningful examples of free markets at work (see BUSINESS...
This was just what studios feared. Rough and tough, Sorrell is little liked by rival studio labor leaders. Neither do they like what they think are his politics. He is now being tried before a union tribunal on charges of Communism. Nevertheless, his quickie victory had greatly increased his prestige. Not since Racketeer Willie Bioff had any labor boss been able to dictate to the studios. The way he was going, using union unity instead of extortion, Sorrell might...
...that the mere heat of the one does not account for the light of the other. Pearson's explanations explain very little. He thinks that Wilde's emotional nature never developed "beyond adolescence"; hence Wilde always remained "an exceptionally brilliant undergraduate, half boy, half genius." Nevertheless, he adds, Wilde was "very much in love" with Constance Lloyd when they married in 1884, and "delighted" in Cyril and Vyvyan, their two sons, born a few years later.* Wilde, moreover, according to Pearson, did not become a "practicing" homosexual until after the children were born. Constance, for her part, remained...
...operation. Cars were still being pushed down the assembly line by hand. In fact, by ordinary production-line standards, the cars were being handmade. In the light of this, Joe Frazer's prediction that K-F would make 2,500 cars in August seemed highly optimistic. Nevertheless, none could say that Joe and Henry, with plenty of help from son Edgar Kaiser, weren't doing their darnedest to make cars...