Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances? American public opinion is now much healthier than it was twenty-five years ago. In spite of the crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...
...spite of spreading wars I think that we have every right and every reason to maintain as a national policy the fundamental moralities, the teachings of religion and the continuation of efforts to restore peace-for some day, though the time may be distant, we can be of even greater help to a crippled humanity. . . . It seems to me clear, even at the outbreak of this great war, that the influence of America should be consistent in seeking for humanity a final peace which will eliminate, as far as it is possible to do so, the continued use of force...
...King to issue decree laws, for the Government to confiscate property, order arrests, search premises, control railways, conduct secret trials, impose financial regulations. Debate began. At 5:30 p. m. Prime Minister Chamberlain, his old-man's voice steady, started his speech. If war came in spite...
...there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist who contributed synthetic acetone to World War I, announced: "In spite of the White Paper [establishing an Arab-dominated State in Palestine] the Jews support British Democracy in the present darkest hours...
...agricultural economy: Corn, Wheat and Cotton. Of these the most corpulent is Cotton. At the end of the cotton marketing year on July 31 the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last week they reported the 'awful facts. In spite of the reducing corset which AAA pays him to wear, he has battened on bountiful crops, gobbled the rich cream of New Deal crop loans and, deprived of the exercise of foreign trade, grown more ugly and obese...