Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michael's Cathedral at Alexishaven, a modest pile, was nevertheless one of the oldest buildings in New Guinea, which meant that it was around 50 years old. And it was a church; B-25 pilots disliked the job of destroying it. But it looked as if they would have to do it: Fifth Air Force intelligence learned that it was being used by the Japs as a military storehouse...
...Nevertheless they held their strongholds in the central district. They even attacked German positions, destroyed half of a battalion, captured a platoon. From somewhere, it seemed, they had got a mysterious transfusion of new strength...
...Nevertheless Tweed was mightily pleased to learn later that he had passed the examination which he had taken before the Japs came to Guam. It was a reward, after 20 years in the Navy...
Mussolini was saved. But somehow the world never forgot the crime. From time to time Matteotti's ghost, started up to haunt Mussolini. From time to time people involved in the murder talked. But they never really told anything. Nevertheless there was a perennial rumor that the Corriere Italiano's editor Filippelli (who has since dropped out of sight) had written a full confession. Only one photostated copy of the confession existed...
Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...