Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hottest and the frying was fiercest. After a heavy artillery barrage, the advance was begun. The trouble from the French standpoint was that they were advancing squarely towards the mountain ridge that forms the backbone of the Riff sausage and had to fight separately for every little foothill. Nonetheless, the losses apparently were not heavy, and an advance was made several miles deep on a 40-mile front. Thirteen of the blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began and the Riffs took them) were recaptured. For three days the French advanced, and then they rested and consolidated their...
...Issoul, a blockhouse which was one of the French outposts at the edge of the fighting, the Riffs entrenched so close to the fort that the French artillery dared not fire for fear of hitting their own men. Nonetheless, the Riffs mounted and captured 75 in the open not far away, and one lone white-robed man proceeded to load and fire it pointblank at the blockhouse. He fired eight times and made eight hits. French guns replied and drove him to hitch several mules to his gun and haul it behind a hill...
...Nonetheless the French took a large salient held by the Branes and advanced their lines several miles at the eastern end of the battlefront...
...where Turks were administering a knock-out to the Greeks. Her position and her prestige she used to further the cause of women, but in a land, traditionally conservative, she was not able to get them enfranchised. But her advocation of monogamy has to a great extent been effective. Nonetheless, despite laws allowing only one wife to a man, except in "unusual cases," experts are divided over the permanency of the experiment, some asserting that its present success is due to economic conditions, both sides holding that polygamy and monogany have merit...
...nonetheless Siki improved in health. It was found that after all his jugular vein had not been severed. His wife came to call on him and he demanded "clo's." She opined that he had best remain in the hospital for a while in pajamas. It appeared, after she had gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab...