Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason: the picture "tends to incite hatred of the persons of enemies and to be excessively gruesome." Stalingrad is not by a long shot the mightiest war film ever-Desert Victory (TIME, April 12), for one, was better. Neither can the Legion's objections be entirely brushed off. Nevertheless, the 24 Russian cameramen who shot Stalingrad (eight of them were killed on their jobs) have provided history with some images of war as true as they are powerful. Some of the images: > A great, flaming city which seems to float on a tranquil river until the Volga also flames...
...leaders in local affairs from such poles apart as reactionary old ex-Governor Merriam and liberal New Dealing John Anson Ford of the County Board of Supervisors. (One well-meaning lawyer whispered to Willkie not to shake hands with Ford: "He's a radical." Willkie and Ford shook nevertheless...
...loud explosion lit the tracks and started a spat of rifle fire. Shadowy figures ran crouching through the tall kaoliang grass and the southbound express whistled in the distance. The Japanese blamed the Chinese and said the blast had torn up 31 inches of track. Nevertheless, the train passed over the spot at full speed without mishap...
...Glee Club, having lost the services of its founder and director, nevertheless got a new lease on life this week. Tech 5th Grade Robert R. Rogers is the new director...
...Although this criticism undoubtedly earned hear-hears from many bored BBC listeners, nothing drastic was likely to happen until after the war. Nevertheless, something did happen. It was not the appointment of hard-driving Robert Foot to be sole director and chief executive officer of BBC (he had been joint director with Sir Cecil Graves until the latter's retirement). It was the creation of the new office of Editor in Chief of BBC and the man chosen to fill...