Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign against the projected demolition of London's time-hallowed St. James's Theater, she got a well-bred bounce, but lordly mustaches fluttered in admiration. From a great commoner came stronger support; doughty Sir Winston Churchill grumped, "As a parliamentarian, I cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced by an office building. Later, cooing, "Oh, how I do love millionaires; they are full of charm as well as dough," Actress Leigh announced happily that art-oriented A & P Moneybags Huntington Hartford and another tycoon had promised...
...That the young in those countries, blinkered and intellectually constricted from birth, should nevertheless express these needs is, in my belief, yet another manifestation of the workings of the law of nature or, as it became known in medieval times...
...they did in Virginia) would strike down the state's 1955 law, making local boards responsible for assigning pupils to schools as a subterfuge for maintaining segregation. Moreover, state schoolmen felt that North Carolinians would accept do-it-yourself integration more readily than the inevitable court-ordered kind. Nevertheless, in making the first break in the hardcore South's stand against public-school integration, the Tarheel State had shown its neighbors a way toward "enlarged understanding," had done it quietly, thoughtfully-and, above all, voluntarily...
...Sheppard was told that a 23-year-old convict and drug addict named Donald Wedler had confessed to the crime in Florida, and that a lie detector test indicated he was telling the truth. Unemotional at the news-24 other persons have signed similar "confessions"-Dr. Sam nevertheless agreed for the first time since the slaying to take a lie detector test himself. Shown a picture of Wedler, he said he had a "vague feeling" that Wedler was the "bushy-haired intruder" he claimed had attacked him on the night of the murder...
...Downs district of Queensland, the parched farmers clamored for Bowen's rainmakers. He sent airplanes reluctantly, knowing he could promise added rain over a period of months-not cloudbursts on order. Even when seeded clouds obligingly dropped heavy rain on several large areas, Bowen refused to claim credit. Nevertheless he smiles a little when he hears of his growing reputation among grateful farmers. "There's no doubt," he says, "that we are starting to push nature around...