Word: spite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of all the outward similarities, the difference in background was decisive when it came to disease. During the course of one year, the high school graduates suffered half again the number of illnesses that the college graduates did. Though few of these involved risk of death, the risk run by the high school men was ten times that of the college men. Above all, many more of the high school men showed telltale signs of future cardiovascular disease...
...spite of what American officials say," jeered Nikita Khrushchev in one of his rocket-brandishing outbursts, "bombers are useless. Bombers are obsolete...
...spite of what Premier Khrushchev says, the Soviet Union is still building bombers. The Soviet air force is currently introducing into service a supersonic bomber so new that NATO has not got round to assigning it a code name. A new delta-wing supersonic bomber, to which NATO recently gave the code name Bounder, appears to match the U.S.'s 6-58 Hustler; the new plane is presumed to be even more advanced. Soviet forces have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some...
...poor; of a heart ailment; in Tokyo. Kagawa organized labor unions and cooperatives the length and breadth of Japan, bitterly denounced his government for attacking China, though he later supported the war against the U.S. He continued his good works among Japan's masses after the war in spite of opposition from the Communists...
...might covet the job. His health is a major consideration: in 1955 Johnson survived a more serious heart attack than the one that felled President Eisenhower two months later. But Ike is the living proof that a man can serve as President for years after a heart attack. In spite of his crushing work load, Johnson is in good health; his heart is completely healed, and he carries a plastic-enclosed cardiogram in his pocket to prove...