Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were even more basic feelings brought out by Mon day's events. Trust, for one thing: the belief that in spite of all the initial misinformation, the facts would eventually be known. Patience, for another; and a general absence of panic. Faith in science, as the doctors were relied on to tell the country what its future looked like. Faith in God, for those who have it. Faith too in the press, remarkably; the same press that is excoriated as a matter of daily habit, still counted on in a real emergency to get the truth as best...
Despite the change of musical pace, the guitar plays the same role in the remake of? and the Mysterians' 1960s hit, "96 Tears," which Jeffreys endows with more vigor and spite than? ever mustered. Throughout these songs' changing moods, his voice assumes a stance recalling James Dean; compassionate, yet aloof; willing to take risks, encounter disappointment, and give his all again...
Arguing that Marshner sees today's society and religion much more static than it is. Deats asked if "a living God" should "stop talking to Christians" in spite of widespread societal changes since Biblical times...
...spite of the fact that Bernstein is left-handed, Morris admitted he was originally reluctant to start a lefty at the position, but he is now convinced that her glove will be a tremendous asset to the team...
...deadly serious concerns to psychologists and linguists. Victoria Fromkin of the linguistics department at U.C.L.A. regards slips of the tongue as clues to how the brain stores and articulates language. She believes that thought is placed by the brain into a grammatical framework before it is expressed-this in spite of the fact that she works with college students. A grammatical framework was part of Walter Annenberg's trouble when, as the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was asked by the Queen how he was settling in to his London residence. Annenberg admitted to "some discomfiture...