Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the pre-game weeping from the Point, Army expected to win the Michigan game. "In spite of what our press releases said, we thought we had a good chance to win the game," said backfield coaching staff member Doug Kenna on Sunday. "Everybody did all we expected, and some of them a lot more...
...relatively small number of women trained in litigation is an imponderable which must weigh heavily on our minds. The picture of a breakfast table transformed into a court room, with husband and wife engaged in bitter legal debate over the eggcups, is almost too frightful to conceive. But, in spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word "co-education" sully that happy arrangement--now envelopes the entire Yard in its embrace. Only the Lamont Library remains the final bastion...
...bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...
...finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian army: "I must defend this man in spite of the loathing I feel...
...dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight to the challenging Boston Red Sox, the Yankees saw their lead vanish as Boston drew up into a dead tie for first. In spite of ill luck and an astonishing succession of injuries (70 since the season began), the nervy Yankees had hung on until the final week of the season. Then, after a third straight loss to Boston, they sank wearily to second and the Sox went out in front...