Word: nevertheless
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History thus far has played a sort of perverse trick on Jimmy Carter. The long string of serious problems, while not calamitous enough to thrust him into a dramatic posture, has nevertheless deprived him of the kind of quiet era of national relaxation over which Dwight Eisenhower governed so benevolently. Carter is a Democratic President assigned by the times to preside not over the sharing of wealth and prosperity, but over the setting of limits. In international affairs, he is forced to accept responsibility for events beyond Washington's control...
Princeton, meanwhile, graduated masochistic netminder Fred Cherne, the man who beat the Crimson last year, and has no one to take his place. Nevertheless, the squad does have some proven performers in Craig Tresham, Trevor Kilburn, Peter DeLorey, and Cliff Lawrick...
...Nevertheless, the U.S. came down on the side of Cambodia, despite its distaste for the Pol Pot government. The Vietnamese invasion, protested Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, "threatens regional peace and stability and violates the fundamental principle of the integrity of international borders." Washington's policy was to play the role of "a discreet referee," said Administration officials; the object was to keep Moscow and Peking from becoming involved in a direct confrontation...
...Parton. As Grand Ole Opry fiddlers sawed away, the odd couple careened bravely through the lyrics of No One Can Pick Like a Nashville Picker Picks and No One Can Kick Like a Nashville Kicker Kicks. "I'm going crackers with that picks and kicks thing," grumbled Burnett. Nevertheless, she thinks she and the queen of country music make a perfect pair. Deadpans Burnett: "I trim my eyelashes and bind myself every morning so that people can tell us apart...
...became increasingly angered over treatment of blacks in the U.S., especially musicians. "Don't call me a jazz musician," he once complained. "The word jazz means nigger, discrimination, second-class citizenship, the back-of-the-bus bit!" Too crippled by disease to perform during his final year, Mingus nevertheless composed the music for an album by Joni Mitchell...