Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surface the Middle East was relatively quiet: not a single government collapsed, only two bombs were exploded (in Lebanon), only one political plot frustrated (in Jordan). Nevertheless, events happened in the Middle East like the first pebbles of an avalanche, and almost all of them fell in a direction favorable to Egypt's Nasser...
...flying saucer myth had won a victory nevertheless. Recent publicity has been scarce, and saucer sightings few, and the widely printed stories about Jung's belief were just what was needed for another round of "visitors from space." When Director Lorenzen was called last week, she did not answer her telephone. She was happily investigating a brand-new saucer sighting...
...National Automobile Dealers Association, scoffed at the indictment. Said he: "If there was any attempt to fix prices, it was certainly a colossal failure. As every new-car buyer knows, for the past several years the retail prices of new cars have been the prices the customers have negotiated." Nevertheless, the Justice Department plans to continue its price-fixing probe in New York, San Francisco and other cities...
...evil nor God nor Devil nor spirit nor matter in distinct separate-ness." Apollinaire's thoughts, attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need to jumble and rearrange his work in complex patterns." His writing "became a vast radiation of himself in all directions"-an illusion that he intensified by sometimes giving his poems and letters the shapes of circles and fans...
...subsidiaries. That part of the deal never got off the ground. Smelling a rat, SEC stepped in, and refused to clear a proxy statement to get existing shareholders' permission for the issue. Meanwhile the American Exchange had suspended Cornucopia from trading for failure to file required financial statements. Nevertheless, even though Belle & Co. only held options, they were able to install officers in some of the companies (making textiles, hot-water heaters and electronics, a printing plant, real estate, etc.) and sweet-talk the banks into loans on the companies' names and supposed assets...