Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hindu and Sikh lived side by side, if not in harmony, at least in uneasy tolerance. It is true that over the centuries, from time to time, they killed and rioted and even fought great wars, but not more often or more fiercely than peoples elsewhere. This in spite of India's abysmal poverty which turns men against one another, in spite of the enraging climate, either osmotic dust or illimitable ooze...
...Thus, not in spite of innocence but because of it, blood appeared; and not the jubilant blood of birth alone, but blood more especially pleasing to Kali, who is both mother and demolisher. India tore herself in two in the womb as a condition to being born at all. Even in the womb, the two unborn nations tore at each other, and from the instant they were born they fell upon each other in maniacal fury...
Said the Prosecutor, in closing: "Yet, in spite of Kali the Destroyer and because of Kali the Mother, India has been and is a great and ancient land, a wellspring and tabernacle of some of the most inspired conceptions of the divine will in man which man has ever dreamed of; and more lately a fount of brotherhood and, among the nations, a preacher of peace. If India could descend to the depths, it could also look up to moral Himalayas. Its recent sin was great, but not unique, especially not unique in origin. It sprang from Kali, from...
After redeeming a book, a man may apply for two new seats outside the cheering section for any post-Dart-mouth engagement in spite of the fact that application deadlines may have already passed. William J. Bingham '16, director of the H.A.A. indicated last night that the tickets men would thus receive would be better than any thing an usher would have to offer after evicting a couple from Section...
...spite of the Disney technical skill, it has never been a very good idea to mix cartoons and live actors. With genial showmanship, Mr. Bergen & Co. barely manage to save their part of the show. Most of the Bongo section is just middle-grade Disney, not notably inspired. And once Mickey & friends get involved with Willie, the whole picture peters out and becomes as oddly off-balance and inconsequential as its title...