Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was blunt talk nonetheless. The Ambala Tribune warned that "by killing Tibetan autonomy, the Chinese have advanced their gun posts to India's northeast frontier," and have brought India's great cities within the range of Tibet-based bombers. An influential Indian geographer, Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, back from a trip to Red China, wrote in the Illustrated Weekly of India: "It will be a sad day for Asia if, after a struggle for two centuries, she overthrows European imperialism only to become victim of another and more sinister imperialism." And in Parliament's first chance...
...only the medieval backdrop gave the scene a curiously old-fashioned air. A scrupulous republican, Charles de Gaulle nonetheless seeks to recall a past regal grandeur (last week his photograph, in the evening dress uniform of an armored-forces general, was ordered displayed in every public building in France). And in the same grand manner, De Gaulle at Bourges took up the national nightmare that has haunted Frenchmen for 4½ bloody years...
Candid Admission. Nonetheless, in his oblique fashion, Charles de Gaulle seemed to be indicating that he knew something that everyone else had missed. A heady scent of behind-the-scenes bargaining was in the air. Modifying the rebels' previous insistence that any negotiations must be held in neutral territory, Ferhat Abbas, "Prime Minister" of the Algerian rebel government, announced that he would be willing to go to Paris to talk with De Gaulle after preliminary contacts in a neutral country...
...returned from a world tour during which he judged shows in Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Ceylon, added still another breed (the Ceylonese sinhala) to the 100 he is already qualified to judge. "I never had so many dogs try to bite me in my life," said Riddle, who nonetheless got back unscarred. "Maybe I didn't smell right...
...reversal of the parts might have benefitted both ladies. In the incisive opening chorus and the stirring chorale at the work's close, the small chorus proved to be simply too small. One can appreciate Harbison's attempt to scale down a reading of a Bach cantata but, nonetheless, the chorus must be large enough to be heard...