Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first item on the Republican agenda. Taxes also had to be cut. These problems were interwoven. But G.O.P. fiscal experts did not talk so confidently as they once had of whacking off appropriations and slashing taxes 20%; closer study of the problems had made them more cautious. Nevertheless, they would attack with vigor...
...Washington, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1946 walkouts had cost the nation 107,475,000 man-days of work-a record loss. Nevertheless, beamed the Department of Commerce, the great U.S. consumer had gone on a record spending spree. His 1946 bill: $127 billion-$900 per person...
...French and Italian black markets had plenty in the midst of want. Britain had want in the midst of socialism (which most Britons, nevertheless, were still determined to keep). Russia had pushed out her borders and was, for the first time in history, the strongest nation in Europe; no organized internal political opposition to the Government existed. Yet, so great was their feeling of insecurity that some of Russia's masters spent their time chivvying poets, composers and clowns whose art was deemed subtly out of step with the regime...
Communists, who have boycotted the National Assembly, will not recognize the new Constitution. A Yenan spokesman admitted that all participants in the People's Consultation Conference had agreed on the principles of the Constitution, but he nevertheless declared it "illegal." It was not, he said, the kind of Constitution that Communists could approve...
Rush, Rest and Win. Captain Pate, who squatted beside the water buckets with a grin frozen on his face, had gambled on Schroeder, the money player. At first, it looked as if he had guessed wrong. Ambidextrous Bromwich, not quite as spry as of old, was nevertheless steady; Schroeder flubbed the simplest shots and lost the first set, 3-6. Then Schroeder, who plays with his mouth open, his tongue out and blowing ferociously, began to use his best weapon-a net game. He rushed the net at every chance, smashing beautifully and volleying down the lines with superb accuracy...