Word: nevertheless
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...patronym. A former Wisconsin tax commissioner, he was given the job by J.F.K. because of his appeal to the Polish vote-though he can barely speak the language. Johnson appointed Gronouski Ambassador to Poland, replacing Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot. A newcomer to foreign affairs, Gronouski, 45, is nevertheless the grandson of a genuine Polish immigrant; his mission in Poland will attempt to thaw the chill in Washington-Warsaw relations-which are still warmer than U.S. dealings with any other Communist capital-that set in after the U.S. intensified its military response in Viet...
Invisible Damage. Many neurologists are now convinced that whiplash, without a direct blow on the head and leaving no scratch on the skull, may nevertheless cause bruises and hemorrhages in the brain...
Opposition leaders rejoiced at Park's problems. Former President Po Sun Yun said that Park "should shed his belief in the almightiness of bayonets" before condemning "the students' belief in the almightiness of demonstrations." Nevertheless, at week's end, Park's police arrested 53 university students and three prominent retired generals, all former members of Park's 1961-1963 junta. In cracking down, Park was well aware that the regime of ex-President Syngman Rhee was overthrown by demonstrations in 1960. As truckloads of soldiers patrolled the streets to crush further uprisings, it was evident...
...shock of his innovations bred rebellion and outrage. Nevertheless he got commissions. His 1952 Unité d'Habitation in Marseille lifted 337 apartments on stilts to give them a view of the Alps. On its surface of rough poured concrete, the marks of wooden forms remained like a touch of man's hand-a touch that so many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp...
...standard," writes Catton, "this was an almost unbelievable way to end a civil war, which by all tradition is the worst kind of war there is. Living for the rest of their lives in the long gray shadow of the Lost Cause, Lee's men were nevertheless going on toward the future. Pride in what they had done would grow with the years, but it would turn them into a romantic army of legend and not into a sullen battalion of death...