Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muscle or spite...
Urging a spirit of aloofness to the chaos in Europe, Walsh backed his policy of "complete neutrality" in spite of what happens in Europe. "Why," he pointed out, "should the United States, a government designed to give the greatest, amount of blessings to all and strongly protected by nature from the belligerent world, risk its future happiness and security by taking sides in a fight in which it has no real concern...
...female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
...spite of such objections, U. S. Army engineers have played with the idea for at least five years, have published a many-volumed report, Available Raw Materials for a Pacific Coast Iron Industry...
Nevertheless, University officials will roast over a fire of their own kindling. For -- again on the merits of bare facts -- the Communist leader should have been allowed to speak at Harvard in accordance with the earlier permit, in spite of his subsequent indictment. The case of the John Reed Society is considerably more convincing than the case of Mr. Greene. There is even a precedent which denies the stand taken by the University. In 1920, Norman Thomas--on trial before the New Yorks courts for violating a city speech ordinance,--was nevertheless granted permission to speak at Harvard...