Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, the Big Power veto is not all-inclusive. On minor matters of procedure, the votes of any seven members are sufficient. In the preliminary stages of serious inquiry, even at the point of deciding whether a given situation "is in fact likely" to endanger peace, a Big-Power member directly involved in an issue cannot vote at all. But the other four Big Powers must concur in any vote to investigate or take even preliminary action. At the all-important point of determining whether a threat actually exists, and from then on to positive action, the Council can make...
What the hell sense does that make?" The Colonel's Cigars. Leipzig had 1,000 ack-ack guns, but they caused surprisingly little trouble. Most were captured intact. Nevertheless a hail of small-arms fire, and some shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
Best of the supporting players is Kac Dirrane. Her Ophelia is delicate and genuinely pathetic. Edward Finnegan play Claudius imperiously but with perhaps a trifle too much of oratory in his delivery. He is nevertheless one of the most effective of the company...
Last week, G.M.'s National was the 13th largest bank in the U.S., with total deposits of over a billion dollars. But G.M., still anxious to get back to its mechanical last, nevertheless unloaded the biggest controlling block of bank common stock ever to be offered publicly in a single transaction. It found eager buyers, since even at $42 National stock was a good deal. Nobody minded G.M.'s profit of over 100%. The emergency was over...
...government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom. Nevertheless, it is the peculiar task of Harvard and every other university and college in this country to foster and maintain not only freedom within its own walls, but also tolerance, self-restraint, main dealing, and devotion to the truth throughout America...