Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone remarked that the Maldives became free last week, one might certainly be pardoned for asking, "Oh, really? How much had they cost before?" Nevertheless last week the Maldives, a collection of 2,000 coral islands in the Indian Ocean (see map), became free...
...norm for the church. The Reformation rejected Catholic belief that Penance was a Christ-instituted sacrament; some Anglicans and Lutherans practice private confession, but most Protestant churches have a confession made by the entire congregation, generally at the beginning of their services. Although public and general, it is nevertheless quite specific, as in the Book of Common Prayer: "We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness...
Once, after he was urged to sack Rusk as Secretary and appoint him Ambassador to the United Nations, Kennedy said sadly, "I can't do that to Rusk; he is such a nice man." Nevertheless, writes Schlesinger, Kennedy finally decided that he would eventually have to install a more dynamic man at State. "By the autumn of 1963," says Schlesinger, "the President had reluctantly made up his mind to allow Rusk to leave after the 1964 election and to seek a new Secretary of State...
Chagall learned some of the discipline of the cubists. But he resisted their dissection of form. "Let them eat their fill of their square peas on their triangular tables!" he wrote. Nevertheless, something of Cartesian logic crept into his fantasies; his pictures took on orderly geometry; his images lost traditional figure-ground relationships and, instead, flattened against the picture plane in search of purely visual values. Said Chagall: "For me, a painting is a surface covered with representations of things- objects, animals, human beings- in a certain order in which logic and illustration have no importance...
Graves never "confessed" to anything; nevertheless his conviction has just been reversed under Dorado. In ruling for Graves, a state district appellate court said that he should have been protected from further self-incrimination as soon as he was arrested...