Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equipped him with experience but with an attitude that should serve him well through the many frustrations that he surely will face at HEW. He once said: "It's frustrating to know, after being in office a few years, that you can't achieve perfect government in spite of constant effort...
...yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan's enterprises seem to be almost an annual affair. Last spring, for example, he dreamed up a building project for the Cambridge Common. All went well for him, in spite of steadfast opposition from the College, until word filtered down from the White House that it would be better if the Common were left in its present, unbuiltupon condition. This was one of those time when Harvard seemed glad to have so much of its Faculty working in Washington...
Pacifists deem it immoral to test nuclear weapons. I deem it more immoral to abandon freedom and justice without fighting for them, and I say this because of my children, not in spite of them...
...report on Professor Barth [April 20] is a masterpiece, and for those of us who know and love Earth, he has assuredly succeeded, in spite of the complexity of Earth's many images, in drawing clearly a portrait of Earth as a Christian man whose religious personality leaves one of the finest memories of utter charm and humanity...
Taut Prose. But in spite of popular taste, prose writing was revamped in the North by men who had fought in the war. The battle memoirs of Sherman and Grant, "perfect in concision and clear ness," changed the "clogged and viscous prose" of the prewar days. In the heat of the war these commanders had no time for overblown eloquence. "Their role is to convince and direct," writes Wilson...