Word: spite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Named the Spite Building, the structure got its quirky size after the city of Cambridge constructed a road, Appleton Street, cutting through most of the original owner's property...
...story has become unclear over time, but as Hardina best recalls, the owner--unable to sell his property--constructed the building out of spite either to his neighbor or to the city of Cambridge, hence the name...
Before becoming the home of the Cambridge Toy Box, the Spite Building has served as a cobbler's shop, candy store, newspaper storage area and shoe store, Hardina said...
...sponsoring nations such as Iran, Libya, and Syria in the Wilsonian hope that we will make them "safe for democracy?" (The U.S. is, incidentally, conspicuously alone in the crusade against these nations as well.) Were we not right to have imposed economic sanctions against South Africa during Apartheid in spite of the negative economic effects of the sanctions for both the United States and South Africa...
...fear is that conscience is not the primary incentive for our sanctions against Cuba. If our Cuban policy has been dictated by conscience, why is our China policy so remarkably unconscionable? China was awarded in spite of its hostility toward Taiwan last year, its foot-dragging in releasing and pardoning the Tiananmen dissidents, its limitations on the number of children parents are allowed to have and other untold abuses on the lives of Chinese citizens...