Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story on Adolf Eichmann refers to Reinhardt Heydrich suffering a severed spine in the attack on him near Lidice. It was as Heydrich rode through Prague that a hand grenade was thrown into his open car and exploded behind him. His spleen was torn to pieces. In spite of almost immediate surgical intervention, he died several days later. I had to perform the autopsy and found the spine intact. As the whole incident occurred in Prague, the destruction of Lidice cannot be linked with the death of Heydrich in the way described in your statement...
Barnaby said that Sullivan showed "great maturity" in surviving several tough draws and giving Bowditch a good match in spite of leg cramps. "He has never shown such maturity or consistency in his game before," stated Sullivan's coach, "and looks like a great prospect for number one man next year...
...victory press conference, Udall made no secret of his belief that his brother had hurt him: "I had counted on winning Yuma County. I lost it." In defeat, Mac Matheson got off the best shot of the campaign. "Congratulations, Mo," he wired the new Congressman. "You came through in spite of Stew...
...foresightedly cuts local businessmen in on his projects outside Hawaii, firmly believes that investing U.S. companies can no longer angle for complete control of their enterprises in the strongly nationalistic Asian countries. But in spite of his big-league operations across the Pacific. Ho is still the head of countless hui. He still gets phone calls from Oriental widows who have faith in his reputation-and $1,000 to invest...
...course, the real trouble with this version of the Ajax is not the staging, or the confusion, or the uncomfortable missed entrances; it is that only two members of the cast have sufficient presence to command attention in spite of the Greek they are speaking. One of them, Myra Rubin (who plays both Athena and Tecmessa) even manages to come through because of it, for she has a graceful and compelling sense of metre that in itself expresses the sweet grief that Sophocles wanted to express. Donald Lyons as Menelaus uses a different technique; he swaggers with impressive competence both...