Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman campaign train, a few days before the election, Columnist Jay Franklin, now a Truman speech writer, had bet newsmen that Truman would win with at least 278 electoral votes. Jack Kroll, director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, also had declared: "Truman is going to win in spite of what the polls say. The polls [are] cockeyed...
...wide spread between present food production and potential production, even in China and India, is vitally significant (and hopeful). Both great nations, in spite of civil disturbances, are beginning to industrialize. When their populations rise, following the classic curve, they can probably raise enough food to keep their people supplied until the curve begins to flatten out normally...
...first big snow of the season hit Moscow last week. It soon began to melt and turn to slush. In spite of the slush, young Muscovites turned up coated and booted in several of the city's squares where wooden platforms had been laid for dancing. The gala occasion: the 30th anniversary of Russia's Komsomol (Young , Communist League), the elite, junior grade, of the Soviet Union...
Montgomery tries hard to give the impression that Saxon is this formidable character, but he is boxed in by a bunch of wooden actors and actresses, situations that are generally picayune, and dialogue that is crumby. So, in spite of Montgomery, Saxon fails to frighten anybody, and his machinations have the air of pattiness...
...fails to work the miracle very nearly wrecks the novel; his concentrated and intelligent fanaticism certainly spoils the aloof ironic tone that Maugham otherwise sustains throughout the book. But it may be that his earnestness will, in the long run, make Maugham's last novel, almost in spite of himself, be judged among his best...