Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antipoverty organization, also patrolled the ghetto-and to better effect. The kids made an impressive contribution to cool; so did a courageous "Walk for Understanding" by 25,000 people, predominantly white suburbanites, who hiked through the city's smoldering Central Ward to show white concern with ghetto conditions. Nonetheless, some 270 fires were set (kerosene tins, shredded mattresses and broken Molotov-cocktail bottles were found in many gutted buildings), and as usual the hardest-hit were the Negro slum dwellers...
...Catholic, soul and suzerainty. There were the predictable and publicized responses-the Academy Awards were postponed so that Negro entertainers could attend the funeral; baseball's major leagues likewise delayed their opening day-and a degree of political grandstanding. But the tributes rendered last week to King nonetheless added up to a moment in the national life that will not soon be forgotten...
...sniping, King nonetheless came closer than any other American to bridging the widening gap between militants and moderates, and if he could not claim to speak for "the Negro," he could at least claim to speak for more Negroes and more pointedly for their cause than anyone else had ever succeeded in doing...
...month that he preferred not to campaign for the nomination, a lot of people got the impression that he was out of the race for good. In the changed game that ensued after President Johnson's rejection of a second term, Rocky was still playing his hand cagily. Nonetheless, he was unmistakably doing-if not saying-the things Americans traditionally expect from a presidential candidate...
...reply came through a most unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats since early April...