Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news was good; yet few consumers seemed to be setting off rockets. Maybe it was just a perverse American custom to worry when prices went up, and worry also when they went down. There was certainly some caution in the air. Florida had never had so many tourists, but along Miami Beach, where workmen had labored overtime under nightlong floodlights to build 19 new hotels for the booming luxury trade, that trade was no longer booming. In Seattle a waitress complained: "Things are starting to tighten up all right; you get twice as many 10? tips...
...couldn't stand his crying," pudgy Georgette Brucks, 21, was sentenced to from one to ten years in jail. She offered to submit to sterilization if granted probation. Los Angeles' Judge Thomas Ambrose so ordered it. Georgette also agreed to have one surviving child, and one yet unborn, put up for adoption...
...leading nations of Western Europe cracked a historical nut last week by agreeing to set up a "Council of Europe." The Council is far from, the goal of federation in which the nations would actually yield up some of their sovereignty to a central body. Yet it is a start...
...Last Sentinels. But China did not yet have peace. The Reds, who had earlier agreed to negotiations, were making the most of victory. Acting President Li, in Nanking, sent an urgent personal appeal to Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung. The victor let the vanquished dangle. The Communist radio broadcast a statement that there could be no peace before the government had demonstrated its "sincerity" by handing over "war criminals" to the Communists: "Chiang Kai-shek is especially important. The said criminal has now fled and may very possibly go abroad to hide beneath the cloak of American and British imperialism...
...deeply earnest play, Forward the Heart is now & then a dramatic one. In the main roles, William Prince (The Eve of St. Mark, John Loves Mary) does well enough and Mildred Joanne Smith (St. Louis Woman, Set My People Free) very well. Yet Forward the Heart sharply fails. It mingles two such general problems as race and rehabilitation to produce the most special of stories-one that calls less for earnestness than intensity. It is a story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve...