Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, they supported Henry Wallace's candidacy...
...Nevertheless, some kind of Big Four conference seemed almost a certainty, beause relations between Russia and the West had entered a third postwar phase, The first was the period of phony collaboration. It was ushered in by the Potsdam conference where Harry Truman played a minuet on the piano while the Russians (politically) danced a hobnailed kazachok over Europe's face. After some two years of that, the Truman Doctrine ushered in the Cold War, a period of mobilization during which the West pulled back from direct contact with Russia, while organizing (under ERP) its joint defense...
Deutsch's column was read by people involved in fundraising. Said one: "Hmmm. We can't keep on killing people forever." It is likely that some changes will be made. For Columnist Deutsch, who never studied medicine, is nevertheless a power in U.S. medical journalism. In 1945, when he launched a one-man attack on the medical setup of the Veterans Administration, he almost went to jail. He refused to name his news sources for a series of 50 articles (13 of them containing constructive suggestions, a fair Deutsch percentage) and was voted in contempt of Congress...
Boost into Black. U.S. railroads, which had received a 21.4% temporary freight-rate increase since last October, got the increase made permanent by the Interstate Commerce Commission. ICC also added a new 1.2% boost (about $67.4 million a year), much less than the additional 5.6% the railroads had asked. Nevertheless, the roads were feeling a lot better. Example: in June, the Pennsylvania netted some $8,000,000, almost triple the May profit. It was enough to wipe out four previous months of red ink and put the road in the black for the half year...
...Nevertheless, the irony, though irony can never be explicit, is there: though Scobie thinks of himself as a sinner, he never realizes what his real sin is-purblind selfishness, appalling spiritual pride1. His "pity" carries him to such morally insane heights that he pities his fellow men -and women-instead of loving them; he ends by pitying...