Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma theater, where more than a dozen British Empire divisions are now engaged, has been doomed to scant world attention. Nonetheless, Britons, Indians, West Africans have paid heavily in the inhuman jungles (battle casualties for the first six months of 1944: 40,000; disease casualties...
...through to get a worse picture." He does not think very highly of directors in any event, as compared with writers. Once he said that the most important function of a good director is to see that the actors don't go home too early. He is, nonetheless, one of the best-liked men in Hollywood...
...higher income-tax returns than hesitant Henry Morgenthau dreamed of. Two months ago the U.S. national debt reached $201 billion; by next June it will be $251.3 billion-just $9 billion short of the legal limit (which Congress can always raise), but $6 billion less than President Roosevelt prophesied. Nonetheless, it is ten times as big a debt as in Andrew Mellon's day, when U.S. citizens still shuddered over the $25-billion debt piled up in World...
...scoldings (in a tone of horror and disgust), by shaking, sometimes by beating. Training is made more difficult by the fact that Japanese babies are habitually overfed (which Gorer thinks may account for Japanese grownups' lack of interest in food and ability to get along on small rations). Nonetheless, a baby is almost invariably perfectly housebroken by the time he can toddle...
...destroyermen shook mournful heads nonetheless. They would see no more of the deeds of "31-Knot-Burke...