Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Charlie Wilson was literally surrounded with brainier men, men more cultured or more brilliant in most things than he. And, true, he came late enough to miss a great many of the terrible early defense-days problems that had strained and wrecked many a bigger reputation. Nevertheless, as some gardeners have "green thumbs," he had the know-how, the touch. Things work for him. In Washington, in the very heart of snafu and intrigue, the whole show fell into one long production line, about the time he came, and soon thereafter the production war was substantially won. The battles...
...formed of men who had endured Nazi occupation, ignored young King Peter and his War Minister, Draja Mihailovich, leader of the quiescent Serb Chetníks. Also ignored was the fact that the Government in Exile had been recognized by the Great Powers (including Russia, which has nevertheless nourished the Partisans). To the men of Jajce, a government abroad is no government; a denouncing king in Cairo is no king...
...produced by Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering's sake. Respectfulness everywhere chaperones audacity...
Outflanked and defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
...conceded the probability that newsmen would not be allowed to sit at the peace table. Nevertheless, he suggested, let journalists unite, demand a peace treaty clause on press freedom. Specifically, he urged that foreign correspondents be given free and direct access to all the news of all nations, with equal facilities for sending the news to their own countries...