Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacuum compounded of mistrust and indecision in the Senate, "studies" by the State Department's studious Adolf Berle-and a man to head the U.S. delegation to the forthcoming conferences. The man: ex-U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew, a good diplomat who nonetheless knew nothing about aviation, until he got his new assignment two weeks ago. The only other certainty was that no U.S. air "expert" liked Britain's well-ordered I.A.T.A. All sides were quick to point out that Britain, as the No. 1 sea power, had never seen fit to call for such...
...laws caused all the confusion. These laws bind any delegates pledged to a candidate to stay pledged no-matter-what, until their candidate's name is no longer before the convention. For this reason Wendell Willkie had urged his delegates not to pledge officially to him. Three men nonetheless officially pledged themselves. They lost. Six men who "unofficially" made their Willkie sympathies known (including two-term Governor Robert O. Blood) were elected. But two of the top three vote-getting delegates were antiseptically committed to no one. And two others of the winning eleven had given their ironclad official...
Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
...Secretary of State before coming to the chairmanship. Charles Sumner (1861-71) was a diligent firsthand student of European peoples and governments, and an intimate of many foreign statesmen. The elder Henry Cabot Lodge (1919-24), whose judgment was warped by his consuming personal hatred of Woodrow Wilson, nonetheless rightfully held his title of "the scholar in politics." William E. Borah (1924-33), though provincial to the last, was widely informed and superbly articulate in his chosen specialty...
People v. Army. The colonels had won again, at least temporarily. But their attempt to give Argentina an orderly, unified military government was floundering worse than ever. Knots of opposition, as yet ineffective but nonetheless significant, began to appear. Some of the army's generals began to look askance at Peron's strutting colonels. For want of a better leader some anti-totalitarians were turning to former three-day President Arturo Rawson.*Pro-Allied but indecisive, he had often proved disappointing...