Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicians, Boston's James Michael Curley is perhaps the strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress...
...accept this recommendation, the Government, Mr. Ralston felt, was climbing out on a limb, counting on a quick end to the war, on reduced casualty rates. Said Mr. Ralston: "If we were to be fair to our fighting men, we could not afford to take chances on these uncertainties." Nevertheless the Government moved doggedly ahead on its fixed course...
...south had been cut; the roads and railways to the east were in range of Patton's Long Toms. His pincers closing east of Metz were only nine miles apart. Then the guns of Metz itself opened up on the attackers for the first time in six days. Nevertheless the Yanks took three of the small outer forts...
...moment the battle was still joined on the Hungarian plain, its fields of yellow pumpkins punctuated by small lakes and farm buildings. Persistent rain had made the kind of mud that even stumped bullocks. Infantrymen were all but swimming in the thick goo and tanks were helplessly stalled. Nevertheless the Russians slogged on past the Tisa, past the abandoned German tanks and trucks littering the plains, and on toward the north...
...Nevertheless, Moscow was confident, Berlin worried. Said one Russian commentator: "The present situation on the Soviet-German front can be called a pause before a new, annihilating blow at the enemy. This offensive will be directed . . . at Germany's vital-centers." Chimed in a Berlin spokesman: the Russian winter offensive is "directly imminent. ... It is not a real calm; it is the quiet before the storm...