Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop was partly due to seasonal shipments of cattle to market, though they were running lower than at the same time last year. When prices started down, some farmers stopped shipping, hoping that a shorter supply would raise prices. Nevertheless, except for hogs, prices stayed down. The Department of Agriculture, which mortally hates and fears a fall in farm income, predicted that the lower prices would not last. Many another expert thought differently. Mark W. Pickell, executive secretary of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association, said that prices would be "lower in November and December," even lower next year. Whoever...
...Nevertheless, the agency racked up an impressive financial record last year. From blood donations alone (one of the subdivisions of the bureau), students pulled down a cool $20,000 and when you add in the income from such things as apply picking, dog walking, and sailing instructions, the total gross well into six figures. Nobody knows the exact amount, for students are shy about telling Holt just how much they ears. Income tax again...
...Nevertheless, he could not prevent the Council from discussing the issue. When newsmen asked Vishinsky what he would do, he grinned and said: "Let us not worry. Everything will be clear in its own time." During one of Vishinsky's tirades, the radiophone translation system broke down. While Vishinsky sputtered in Russian, shrill sounds filled the receivers. Delegates frantically waved their arms. In the face of a laughing audience, Vishinsky finally demanded that his statement be postponed "until in this room, science and technique take the place they deserve...
...West's watch on the Rhine was far from firmly established; ahead lay much disagreement and bickering of the kind foreshadowed by De Gaulle's statement and the French government's hesitation. Nevertheless, bickering about Western Union was better than no Western Union...
Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established star, when she was a chamber-maid at the Palmer House. (A titter is heard around the stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean to her and is, in addition, a terrible...