Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annamites told Bao was enough to sober him. To the people of Viet Nam he issued a grave proclamation: "To avoid bloodshed, I renounced the throne of my ancestors. Since you wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech, you have revealed to me the whole picture of your miseries. In your distress you came to me. Answering your appeal, I accept the mission which you entrust to me and I am ready to contact the French authorities. I shall exert...
...spite of its romantic name, the Atlantis did not search for relics of lost Atlantis, the fabled continent which the ancient Greeks believed sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago. Most geologists do not take the Atlantis myth seriously...
...Although club owners wouldn't talk, payments to players in eastern Canada's Big Four Union-Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Rough Riders-reputedly ranged from $50 to $150 a game, with some players getting from $1,500 to $5,000 a season. In spite of the Revenue Department's ruling, Canada's rugger players seemed strictly professional...
...infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...
...interest I may ever take in rereading it. . . . No more interest in keeping this journal. . . . I interrupt this journal, which is reduced to the dull notation of facts. Good [he wrote after 23 years of keeping it] solely as a way of getting into the habit of writing." In spite of flashes of cold, Gidean brilliance, most readers will probably feel the same way about the Journals...