Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state they call me the big, dumb Swede!" quipped lumbering Ed Johnson. His colleagues in the Senate were not much surprised to hear this; they had known Colorado's Big Ed for nine years. Nevertheless, they suffered him to delay passage of the $3.75 billion British loan for two hours while he groped around in parliamentary irrelevancies...
...Nevertheless, Harvard undergraduates must send a representative to the meeting. If it should prove to be a failure, the College and the other New England institutions which it is to represent ought to have an observer on the spot who will be able to report back to them the fact of and reasons for its collapse or domination by one element. If, on the other hand, it is a success, and a working international association is set up, Harvard should have a part in the discussion and actual labor involved in the formation of a constitution; ideas representative of those...
...excess-profits tax. (But the amount may be reduced if G.M. shows a substantial profit for the full year.) Thus, G.M.'s net loss for the first quarter, the reddest report seen since depression days, was $36 million v. a 1945 first-quarter profit of $50 million. Nevertheless Mr. Sloan expects to end 1946 in the black, told stockholders that "operations in the second quarter should be more satisfactory...
Dana Andrews had the inherent intensity and toughness to be convincing as the hardboiled detective hero; Tom Neal, a good performer, has neither. In the movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...
...John Llewellyn Lewis did was wave the threat of a new strike at the end of May-by the anthracite miners. Nevertheless, Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach appointed onetime Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady as special conciliator, who persuaded Lewis and the operators to resume negotiations. This week the crunch of the strike had come. Next week would come the crisis...