Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the Seine in France. They had an estimated 60,000 troops below the Maas, including the doomed and dwindling pockets on the Scheldt estuary. They were definitely in retreat. In contrast to the bitter stalemate fighting elsewhere on the western front, the British-Canadian forces made good time. Nevertheless the Germans retreated in good order. They needed time to get set between the Maas. the Waal and the Led. They had to hold the Arnhem hinge...
Dewey seems to be no such man. He, therefore, disappoints these hero worshipers. He does, nevertheless, possess obvious qualifications. He is dispassionate and fairminded, a capable and thoroughly honest administrator. He is experienced and fully aware of the problems facing the nation. He has addressed the people with reasonable frankness on the subjects of employment, labor relations, social security and international affairs. He comes before the American electorate with fewer political commitments than any major candidate in recent history, with the exception of Wendell Willkie...
...that he is a born comedian. His producers discreetly shelve scripts he painfully prepares for them. He idolizes the comic ease of Bing Crosby. His associates readily forgive Eddy such blatant clowning as hiding from the director under Jeanette MacDonald's hoop skirts. Frugal, suspicious, Eddy is nevertheless as honestly congenial as a puppy...
...Gaulle, and Gaullist Regular Army men make a policy of appreciating F.F.I. services. Last week, while Colonel Rol-Tanguy was being whittled down, another F.F.I, colonel, Jacquot, received a medal and a Gallic kiss, for gallantry in action, from the French First Army's General Delattre de Tassigny. Nevertheless the F.F.I, remains wary. Last week they complained about lack of weapons for Maquis still fighting Germans in western France. Growled the Communist Humanité: "Is that fifth-column work in Paris...
Ceremonious Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory, onetime boss of Britain's glamorous Fighter Command, plugged on nevertheless at his job in Eisenhower's headquarters. This week the situation was cleared up. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower and a veteran associate and boss of U.S. airmen, took over the job of running the Expeditionary Air Force. To a new job in a minor league-the Southeast Asia theater-went Sir Trafford, to become Allied air commander there...