Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, she said, she did not give political broadcasts. She was only a harmless outcast, clutching her pride to her thin shoulders. But in 1943 Love lighted her up like a pinball game, and in the hands of the Nazi schemers, she stayed lighted for a long time. The man who was the cause of it all was one Max Otto Koischwitz, a slightly potbellied professor who had spent years at New York's Hunter College, and who served in the German Foreign Office during...
Despite bad-tempered outbursts, Bing has usually shown a notable ability to get along with the boss. When John S. Knight bought the Free Press in 1940, he took control of the news columns away from Bingay, left him in charge only of the editorial page. Nevertheless, writes Bing solemnly: "John S. Knight [is] in my book the best of all publishers...
...Nevertheless, Kalaupapa, operated for the last 84 years as a self-supporting isolation colony, has fallen behind the times. Hawaii's bumbling Governor Ingram M. Stainback, onetime lawyer from Tennessee, now calls it "a blot upon Hawaii's good name." Last week he asked the Territorial Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance...
General Motors surprised the motor industry, and everyone else, last week by cutting the price of its cars. It was not a deep slash-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on Cadillacs-but it was a cut, nevertheless. Light and medium trucks, which are getting harder to sell, were reduced...
...that Jones had sat up most of one night drinking "large quantities of whisky" and playing poker for $4,000 pots, Jones decided to appear. He testified that he had asked F.D.R. to write the memo, so that he could tell Moffett that RFC could not finance Ibn Saud. Nevertheless, Jones admitted that RFC had later advanced $425 million to Great Britain, which in turn gave Ibn Saud $51 million. This deal, Moffett claimed, saved Aramco at least $30 million...