Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throughout. With Smith up 8-7, the Crimson broke things open. With sophomore Margaret Asomaning serving, Harvard rallied for six straight points to take a 14-7 grip on the game. Close coordination between spiker Asomaning and junior setter Cathy Wong kept Smith out of the contest and, in spite of the opponents' spectacular dives and rolls, Harvard clinched the game...
...know, I like you in spite of your jabs, because you have given me an opportunity of spending an hour writing this letter. If you come over to Boston
...spite of the President's best efforts, the conservative American Federation of Labor counted 3,700,000 workers out of jobs that first winter of the Depression...
...life affection has been showered on me, and every forward step I took has been taken in spite...
...precisely because Sibbard restrains himself from self-righteous pontification. Although James ultimately rejects Harry's offer to "take him away from all this," when James takes to the bottle again, no one is certain that he has made the right choice. Sibbard's play works because of not in spite of--the frayed ends; they let it transcend the level of soap opera, and leave the audience feeling appropriately unsettled and introspective...