Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of encouragement from Billie Jean King, Ride decided to quit tennis and go on to full-time graduate studies in astrophysics at Stanford. By 1978 she had a doctorate but no job. When NASA advertised for the first time in ten years for astronaut-scientists, she became one of 8,370 applicants. After grueling physical and mental examinations, including a session with two NASA psychiatrists who tried to crack her now celebrated composure, Ride was one of 35 candidates picked, six of them women. The other female "Ascans" (NASA slang for astronaut candidates) were equally talented: Judith Resnik...
...Somehow I just don't talk about these memories," says White. "You don't talk about your education when you talk about your college memories. You're being educated almost in spite of the faculty...
...member organizations of the Third World Coalition vote to boycott the Chambers Greenberg class Support in the Coalition, however, is not unanimous. The boycott tactic, says Joseph A Garcia, president of La Alianza the Chicano students organization, "will hurt minority students. It's like cutting off our nose to spite our face...
That feast day does not seem imminent. In spite of the 24-page agreement laboriously negotiated by Lebanese, Israeli and U.S. diplomats over five months, there was little hope that any of the foreign troops now in Lebanon were actually prepared to leave. It was understood by the three countries that Israel would not withdraw its estimated 38,000 troops from Lebanon until the 50,000 Syrian troops and the 10,000 to 15,000 Palestine Liberation Organization commandos had first been removed, and Syrian President Hafez Assad has made it clear that he has no intention of cooperating...
Nihilism scratches the surfaces of these works. But Brown acutely perceives the "in spite of that moves below the words: "When anguish is summoned, joy emerges; when mourning is appropriate, celebration intrudes." Wiesel's refusal to despair is not born out of blind faith and certainly not out of innate optimism. It arises, like most prophetic tendencies, from a balance of terror: the riddle of God on one side, the knowledge of man on the other. Brown enlivens his text with quotes, none more pertinent than Wiesel's self-analysis: "When you live on the edge...