Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, millions of Russians who have discovered, via the Red Army abroad, that almost all other nations live better than they do grumble at the slow rate of improvement. In a police state, grumbles are harder to hear-and far more important-than in a free country. Dissatisfaction creeps out in art, literature, and even in the circus. Two samples from last week's Moscow scene...
...wage and salary controls were dropped by the Dominion Government last week. They had been so badly battered in six months of strikes and increases granted by War Labor Boards that abandonment was more or less of a formality. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Mackenzie King shrewdly made what political capital with labor he could out of it by making the announcement while in Quebec City for the Liberal gathering (see below...
...Nevertheless, as a safeguard, the Government intended to continue rationing of meat, butter, sugar and preserves for many months. The last wartime restriction to go would almost surely be rent control. As far as any one could see end of that was still several years away...
...York, which invites the most obvious comparison, there is sufficient sporting activity all there is sufficient sporting activity all year round, and ample interest in all of them for the problem to be less crucial, but even Manhattan dailies, especially the tabloids, do not fall innocent of the charge. Nevertheless, it is surprising to find sheer hearsay and blatant speculation in Boston's so-called "family papers," the dailies which find their way into most living rooms, clubs, and even Harvard dining halls...
Many other Frenchmen felt the same way; 28% of them stayed away from the polls. A high abstention rate was expected to work in favor of the Communists, who do not stay home. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister and Provisional President Georges Bidault's Catholic Progressive M.R.P. made an amazingly good showing, and was about even with the Reds, who lost votes for the first time since liberation. The Socialists lost even more heavily than last time...