Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonds of old friendship failed to carry the day. On his own initiative, Macmillan overruled Salisbury, and at midweek Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd told the House of Commons: "While Her Majesty's Government cannot regard [Makarios' statement] as the clear appeal for which they asked, nevertheless they consider that in the present circumstances it is no longer necessary to continue the Archbishop's detention." The government, added Lennox-Boyd, would not permit the Archbishop to return to Cyprus itself, nor would it comply with his demand for immediate lifting of the state of emergency in Cyprus...
...Kubitschek had already made clear in his New Year's message to the people, the first year of his five-year development plan had to be spent mainly in the unspectacular business of laying the groundwork. Nevertheless, 1956 did produce unexpected progress. Almost as though he could hardly believe Brazil's good fortune, Kubitschek reported that...
...Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...
...rest of this little picture, which despite a clumsy production is probably going to flood the Easter Bunny with zillions of requests for baby bulls, describes the fantastic things the boy does to save the life of his pet. Nevertheless, the moviemakers have seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...
France & Purity. The ending is, nevertheless, edifying. The cardinal collapses while celebrating Mass, and dies. With his last words he says to Abbé Mas: "Be happy in the Lord." And "in that moment the abbe found his vocation again . . . The old man . . . on whom miracles had long palled had performed a miracle." When they laid out his body "it was found that this ironist, this witty censurer, had worn a hair shirt...