Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make a King. George VI is, first of all, the product of time. Britons have spent some 1,100 recorded years in the making of their monarchy (see p. 27). The result-a king who does not rule, a monarchy which nevertheless still holds and preserves the intangible but final
...their present difficulties (see p. 24) Allied military commanders want no major political change. Badoglio, continuing to rule by decree, thanked the United Nations "in the name of the King and the whole Italian people" for their "generosity and confidence." The controlling political fact in Italy was nevertheless still a military fact: the Germans had not been defeated, still controlled more than three-fourths of the Italian mainland...
Economy of Excuse. Author Flynn (Men of Wealth, Country Squire in the White House) disclaims any interest in the well-to-do as such. He nevertheless notes that it is their opposition to paying the interest charges on an ever-increasing Government debt that paves the way for the dictator...
...final reason for the break lay in British diplomacy. The British have been reluctant to embargo Argentina. Not only do they need Argentine beef, but they have large investments in handling it. Nevertheless, they may well have outbluffed the Argentines. Or the British may have made the most of Nazi connections with high Argentine officials (rumor mentioned even Perón himself). In any case, the sudden break of relations was a welcome relief for the British, since it made an embargo unthinkable, left British interests intact...
...office bingos of the new year. It may not be, as its producers gasp, "a motion picture so powerful . . . so majestic . . . so deep in its understanding . . . that for one immortal moment you touch the eternal truth . . . the final fulfillment... of everything you are . . . or ever hope to be." Nevertheless, it is a remarkably good moving picture-an improvement on Franz Werfel's reverent novel about the French peasant girl who saw the Blessed Virgin and, with her help, discovered a miraculously healing spring at Lourdes...