Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerns of life at Radcliffe between 1924 and 1928 that come out again and again in conversations with the women who graduated the year after Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, and the year before the stock market crashed. As a commuter, Bolster nevertheless participated a great deal in Radcliffe extracurricular activity. As she recalls, most of the '28 Class Marshals were commuters like her. All the commuters ate in Agassiz, and "in many ways were a more unified body than those living in the dorms. It was not that there were any hard feelings there, just a mechanical question...
...sailors' response was intended to reflect China's priorities in foreign affairs these days, and it typified the tone of Brzezinski's three-day visit to Peking. Filled with good will and banter, the talks nevertheless carried a strong and serious anti-Soviet message. Brzezinski tried to keep this theme from raising Soviet anxieties too high, but he did not mind lifting them a little. "I do not want to suggest that there was congruity or the shaping of some sort of alliance," he carefully explained after his return to Washington. "But there was a recognition...
...easy, nevertheless, to get annoyed at repeating the same, often unpleasant, story again and again. This information is personal and someone may or may not want to volunteer it. You would not go up to a person and ask, "Hey, why are you divorced...
...downward threat" of Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had "a respect for the rights of the top dog." He was never a popular leader, but he towered above his colleagues as a magnificent orator and consummate politician. Nevertheless, his first term as Prime Minister, from 1939 to 1941, ended with a sweeping victory for the Labor Party. He made a spectacular comeback in 1949, after warning Australians that "a vote for labor is a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom...
...would not like to produce the impression that Zionism is a mystical poetry-far from that. Zionism has been a diagnosis, a prescription and a therapy. It is a slow and painful process, nevertheless enchanted, precisely because of the tensions, the ambivalence of the Israeli condition, the variety of visions and the pain of realities. The Israelis' demand is absolute: either they have the best country in the world, the purest, the fulfillment of the highest moral standards, or else there is a total disillusionment...