Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place in the entire meet, after Army and Navy, was disappointing to the squad that took first place last year. Said student manager Dick Loebl, "The team wasn't satisfied with their performance as a whole. They were inexperienced in this type of meet, and it hurt them." He nevertheless predicted that Harvard would place at least four or possibly five runners on the All-Ivy team...
Ford Motors as Baal. The errors that Niebuhr confesses in this book of "my old age" are mostly errors of social and political philosophy. He was never a Communist sympathizer. He was always critical of an ideology that promised to build Utopia by destroying human freedom. Nevertheless, he was strongly influenced by Marx, and believed in the capacity of socialism to realize more fully than any other political system the Christian ideals of social justice and equality...
...will not make poor people rich, or even comfortable and that the only real answer to the problems of poverty (sweat shops, lack of skills, technological unemployment, etc.) is a socialist society where the resources are used in the interest of all, not just of a small capitalist class. Nevertheless, the war on poverty is important in our immediate struggles...
...where you can't make everybody happy." Says one reporter: "He's Mr. Snow in my book." There is an "icy piety" about him, complains another. Says a third, with grudging admiration: "He can shave the truth until it is as thin as a razor blade. Nevertheless, it is the truth...
...Nevertheless, as tangible evidence of the Klan's retaliatory zeal, the committee displayed a White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...