Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camp . . . Oops, Yard, and tarry in the shadow of John Harvard's statue, know that Fair Harvard has emerged victorious in four gridiron jousts, and the eager young bruisers of Dick Harlow will journey to Hanover town anon, with hearts hopeful of tripping the base football varlets of Dartmouth. Albeit, 'tis needful first that Rutgers do a deal of dying and little of doing come Saturday...
...unless it be those in the program notes which conclude, "Apparently there is no secluded corner of this troubled orb where the rotund Romeo does not have a counterpart; for, no matter what the customs or the climate, there are wives who are merry and husbands who are cuckolds." Albeit that wastrel Falstaff does get off a few juicy monologues on the vices of good and the virtues of evil, they are nothing one would want to add to his personal book of rules...
Half a Victory? The war had stimulated the growth of Communism, but nowhere had the Soviet military arm presented the Soviet political arm with an absolute victory. Communist parties were still minority parties, albeit stronger, more experienced, more effective. Throughout Russia's eastern bastion, Communist tails were wagging non-Communist dogs with the utmost adroitness, but with increasing difficulty...
Alsace-Lorraine: rural, albeit earthly-wise, natural type; not the type for a casual affair; eminently wholesome but, withal, drab. Luxembourg: a puzzle. With all the outward appurtenances of modernity they still are, well, provincial. Belgium: a decided improvement (especially in the Arlon-Bastogne sector). The female form begins to show signs of having been groomed for its primary purpose...
...Former plugs: a "mighty, fertilizing and health-giving river," "an aid to . . . our new structure for preserving peace." "a medium, albeit primitive, of intercourse and understanding...