Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...
...Nonetheless, Stakman is no gloomy defeatist. His $300,000 laboratory at the University of Minnesota is one of the liveliest in the U.S., pulsing with Arrowsmithian fervor. His graduates have scattered over the earth, today are fighting fungi in Europe, Australia, China, India. Stake's popularity with youngsters is the talk of the campus. Told that her family planned to have steak for dinner, a faculty tot once burst into tears, sobbed: "But I like him. He's nice...
...Nonetheless, though authorities predicted in January that all needs for penicillin could be met by this month, production is still far behind demand. Reason: new uses for penicillin are being discovered faster than new methods of production...
...Nonetheless the White Paper says flatly that the Government is willing to take "the responsibility for taking action at the earliest possible stage to arrest a threatened slump. This involves a new approach and a new responsibility for the state...
...There could be no formal report, of course, yet top airmen Tedder, Spaatz, Harris, Anderson, Eaker, Brereton and the rest must be turning over in their minds what such a report should be. It would be short of the claims of Billy Mitchell, but in the main it would nonetheless be favorable...