Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the Rapid Transit System undoubtedly purchased years before I was born, I read the second paragraph [about the typical TIME-reading man], looked down at one of my two summer suits (a greasy pair of overalls) and then read on, looking hopefully for exceptions. I found none. Nevertheless, I hung on my strap and continued reading TIME, as I have been doing for years...
...South's dissident Dixiecrats had twice broken all modern records for emitting rebel yells, waving the Confederate flag, and complaining about the North. Nevertheless, with the Democratic National Convention and their own Birmingham convention behind them, they gathered in Houston last week and went through the noisy act all over again. The occasion: Governor J. Strom Thurmond's formal acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination...
Fifty Days. On Friday the 13th, Berlin had weathered 50 days of siege. The stormiest wind and rain of the year whipped through the ruined city. Nevertheless, on that day the West's cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...
Block That Rumor. Nevertheless, the commentators had to comment (Drew Pearson confidently began a column: "Here is the inside story . . ."). The London Times's diplomatic correspondent wrote (in London) that "The Moscow talks yesterday advanced a stage nearer their conclusion, which cannot now be much longer delayed." The Manchester Guardian's stay-at-home diplomatic correspondent was also pawing the air: "It has been felt in some quarters that the meeting might prove decisive, but there is nothing to show that it did, in fact, produce any results...
...beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of melodrama (or even of exciting incidents) that its interest is surprising-without plot and without particular distinction in its prose, with characters who seem merely to have wandered on the scene, it is nevertheless absorbing...