Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroy installations. Marcus, only five miles around, nevertheless supports three airplane runways, can be used as a base of operations against U.S. submarines, is useful as a link in the air routes to the Marshalls, Gilberts and Wake...
...overdescribe it," sighed Archie Campbell. "After the peace the War Department will have to send troops there to drag those guys home . . . it's a soldier's dream." Less explicit, less expansive than Campbell, the Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. III, Sixth Edition, nevertheless concedes that Aitutaki's people are "hospitable and well-disposed...
...first result of Quebec was limited recognition by the U.S. and Britain of the French Committee of Liberation. This action did not fully clear up the ambiguity of policy toward France, did not fully satisfy the French patriots in Algiers. It was, nevertheless, a forward step-and perhaps the strongest commitment that could now be made by two nations which must some day invade Germany through France...
...Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
...Nevertheless, barbarian that he is, he's right. Look at the state of Harvard today. Babies in the Yard can be born, or even clotheslines, after all, e'est laguerre. But ask a Freshman what "Reiu hardt" means, and he'll probably tell you (and after does) that it's a brand of ale. Ask him to sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman...