Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia has been seeking loans totaling $250 million from the World Bank and other Western sources. The U.S. and Britain have demanded the closing of the Greek frontier as a prior condition to granting such loans. At Pola, Tito explained: "We are not selling our conscience and our souls." Nevertheless, it looked as if somebody was selling something-on the installment plan...
...first six months, the 81st was proving footloose and independent-minded. The independence made it irritatingly slow at times; it also made for the kind of middle-of-the-road Congress which would never fully satisfy the Truman Fair Dealers, or satisfy the conservatives either, but would nevertheless leave behind it some solid achievements...
...more than two years, at every roll call, Senate clerks had written the words "necessarily absent" after the name of the senior Senator from New York. Nevertheless, Senate pages continued to tend the inkwell and sand holder at his vacant desk, and his name appeared from time to time (as a cosponsor) on Senate bills...
...Nevertheless, the Senate Executive Expenditures Committee and two other Congressional groups trumpeted that they would start investigating the five-percenters. That was a big job, since anyone who had kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...
...great shakes as either drama or suspense, Roughshod nevertheless exhibits several very good reasons why Director Robson, now making movies for Samuel Goldwyn, is one of the most sought after young directors in the business...