Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saying that the "voters have cut off their noses to spite their faces," Middlesex Assistant District Attorney John Kerry said Prop 2 1/2 is a protest of the "grotesque failure" of previous administrations and fitting retaliation to "years of wastefulness...
During her career, she has enjoyed triumphs for which other sopranos would give their last high C-in spite of a well-deserved reputation for temperamental perfectionism that has given headaches to many a colleague and caused her to cancel a number of important engagements. Blessed with a large voice that easily spans three octaves, Stratas was selected to sing the title role in Alban Berg's thorny twelve-tone shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl...
...Trafalgar the biggest battleship was the Spanish Santissima Trinidad. It was destroyed by Nelson's fleet in spite of its name and 30 guns. The crew of the Corpus Christi should not expect any special protection, at least in this world...
...children of war death explodes like a car bomb. They simply may not have the time to seethe or develop their hatreds. For them the exercise of charity may be an automatic protection, an instantaneous striking back with the antipode of what strikes them-kindness for cruelty, generosity for spite. In short, their goodness may be a means of survival...
...added that even in spite of martial law, "there are still uncensored publications going around in Poland." Chojecki, before coming to the United States in October of 1981, founded the independent publishing house "Nowa" and also helped establish Solidarity's printing offices...