Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the double handicap, Captain Graham Taylor looks forward to a possible second place in the weekend's seven-team competition. Amherst, on paper at least, makes the biggest bid for first place...
...Artists ... do not like to be outcasts, engaged in work which most of their fellow citizens regard as ... outside the range of normal human interests. ... It is not fashionable in our country to be deeply interested in the arts. ... In spite of our high standard of living (which is usually interpreted as meaning a high standard of eating) and our much-vaunted educational system (which teaches our children everything except a love of learning), we are still content to live and think on a very humdrum level. . . . Until Canadians discover that thinking can be fun, the arts in this country...
...spite of the no-confidence vote, Bevan was still confident that he had a good chance of corralling enough doctors to make the scheme work on schedule. He holds a powerful pounds & pence goad: the panel system ends July 5 and is superseded by the new act. Doctors will miss its steady income. They will still be free to practice privately, but they will have trouble finding many Britons willing to pay extra...
...spite of unexpected Harvard aggressiveness and Jack Lavalle's monumental 43 saves, the Big Green kept control of the situation until it had amassed a 7 to 2 lead. At this point the smouldering violence responsible for 18 penalties burst into a fist fight between Dave Abbot and Whitey Campbell...
...spite of the nurse situation, the blood committee is instigating an intensive drive for more pledges. The fall campaign fell short of its 200 man quota with 186 pints. The committee hopes to fill the deficit with an overflow haul during this drive, although only 80 sigaces are now registered...