Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS October, Miss Theeman nevertheless secured permission from the Council to chair a four-man "social action committee." For three months the committee made little headway in the various projects and ideas it submitted to the Council, but last month Miss Theeman presented several well-prepared resolutions, including one that called for a referendum on Vietnam...
...Thus grandeur watchers saw a significance of sorts in his presence as host at an official farewell luncheon for U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, 63. While "France does not constantly approve" of American actions, De Gaulle said, getting in a few pro forma licks, the two nations could nevertheless still rely on their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "We have found you a diplomat of the highest order," he said. "I raise my glass in your...
...Nevertheless, Khachaturian professes an interest in new music; several of his pupils at the Moscow Conservatory are, he says, "very modern." Their teacher's own prevailing conservatism has produced its own rewards: an eight-room apartment in Moscow (in a building where Shostakovich, Rostropovich and several other Soviet musicians also live), a summer home, another estate presented to him by the Armenian government, two cars, two chauffeurs and a large staff of servants. "I suppose that makes me a capitalist," he says, not at all ruefully...
...made a confession. They also said that he did not ask to see a lawyer or call his parents, and that he had been properly informed of his rights. His lawyer said he hadn't been, and pointed out that he had refused to sign the supposed confession. Nevertheless, using notes, the county investigator at the trial simply read aloud everything that he claimed Gary had admitted. The defense objected, but was overruled...
...Queen's coldhearted preference for profit, says Pope-Hennessy, was everywhere the rule. The pages of his book are crammed with standard excuses: "I confess it's not a thing I like," wrote Richard Drake, who nevertheless stayed with the business for 20 years, "but slaves must be bought and sold. Somebody must do the trading, and why not make hay while the sun shines?" Slavery,was one of God's ways of bringing the heathen to Christianity, it was argued; and besides, slavery helped rid Africa of its well-known criminal element...