Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened by Charles de Gaulle. Nevertheless, the other Five noted with relief that France's Foreign Minister Couve de Murville seemed willing to rejoin them in regular attendance at all Council meetings, starting in February...
...genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious talents fall considerably short of genius but whose latest novel, Incubus, nevertheless opens the sluices of association and requires the reader to navigate as best he can a torrent of reminiscence, admittedly autobiographical but attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion of his father's death at the age of 80, had suffered...
Even as Indira spoke, a crowd milled outside the round Parliament building. For days, the result had been a foregone conclusion, but the crowd nevertheless anxiously awaited confirmation...
...Nevertheless, Sullivan kept quizzing kids, found that they could be coaxed to chuckle first over impish-looking drawings of red ants, a fat man, even a thin pin, later over a frolicsome poodle named Nip and a red-headed moppet named Walter-all illustrating stories with plots that children found engaging. Laboriously trying out frame after frame on children and rejecting those that led either to boredom or too many wrong answers, Sullivan's team completed 21 textbooks-three series of seven, roughly intended for the first three grades...
Sold Out. Nevertheless, the siege began with a British victory. One English officer and 57 men held an outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near...