Word: spite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through 24 applying. Evidently, more older men are convinced by Air Force propaganda which calls its program "the easiest way to get a commission--it's like ROTC in three months." The Army has also found an increase in the number of college graduates enlisting, in spite of the fact that it has no special program for them. There has been an increase in the number of men 21 through 23 seeking naval commissions...
...spite of his strong Pennsylvanian accent, he speaks Esperanto quite fluently. He has used it in various parts of the globe--the Netherlands, for example--when he couldn't make himself understood any other...
Meanwhile, details of Menderes' execution slowly became known, in spite of Turkish censorship. Brought back from a near-fatal suicide attempt, the former Premier was hanged as soon as he was declared fit by prison doctors. Apologizing for the "trouble" he had caused his jailers, Menderes was taken aboard a Turkish navy gunboat from the island of Yassiada, where the eleven-month trial had been held, to the prison island of Imrali, where Polatkan and Zorlu had been hanged 36 hours before. Aboard the gunboat Menderes asked permission to make the namaz (ablutions and prayers), later did not remonstrate...
Silver & Snuff. Montclair got its museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...
What remains to be tested? In spite of the stockpiled ability to overkill, testing is still profitable. All experts believe that nuclear explosives can be "improved" -made deadlier and more precise-by slow refinement and by large technical breakthroughs. Explosive efficiencies are still far below the theoretical maximums...