Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister's office, a cool room with blue leather and a blue rug, a couple of etchings and a map, Jack Curtin affects a huge uncluttered desk. A reserved man, shunning formal gatherings, he nevertheless likes to cock one foot on the desk and talk at length. He smokes incessantly-through a bamboo holder-and drinks tea without pause. He has good relations with the press (still sports his Australian Journalists Association emblem on his watch chain) and is a master at handling irate delegations. Recently a party went up from Sydney, determined to have a showdown...
Sophocles, 49-year-old second son of the late, great Eleutherios Venizelos, is a veteran of Grecian wars with Bulgaria and Turkey, a onetime bridge champion, a declared opponent of the Greek monarchy, who nevertheless joined the Greek Cabinet in Cairo last year...
...Nevertheless, said Dr. Lahey to a war-decimated meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, more doctors will be recruited. Reason: poor distribution of doctors in the armed forces. At the front, there are too few doctors; in the rear (which includes Army & Navy hospitals in the U.S.), too many...
...disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said the Rev. Donald Lothrop, a member of the advisory committee of the Civil Liberties Union, after being shown a disturbing passage: "That stinks." Nevertheless, the Civil Liberties Union opposes the ban. Said Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance): "It should be required reading in every deanery, every parsonage, and every Legislature, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line...
...Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists...