Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Achievement of a neutral Laos would be no Kennedy victory, but if neutrality could be preserved, it would be an acceptable stopgap solution. Implicit in Kennedy's words was a hint of a big stick-a warning that, in spite of all the hazards of warfare and the possibility of another Korea, the U.S. would fight if necessary to keep the Reds from overrunning Laos. The troops were ready, and Secretary of State Rusk was at the SEATO conference in Bangkok to rally the U.S.'s allies (see following story...
...Jolla the Cuss I drilled five holes, the deepest 1,035 ft. Cores of sand, mud and soft stone with a few fossils were brought up. In spite of the loss of two diamond-studded drill points, the tests were considered highly successful...
Next week the Program will take steps to accelerate the drive, in spite of anticipated Federal aid from the Kennedy medical bill...
...internal dynamism of the capitalist economy was gone forever, as Keynes saw it, and permanent government manipulation would be needed to keep the economy from sinking into stagnation. Even after the splendid performance of the U.S. economy in World War II (in part because of planning, in part in spite of it), economists tended to take a melancholy view of what lay ahead, predicted massive transitional unemployment. It was against this somber background that Congress passed the Employment Act of 1946, making it a "responsibility" of the Federal Government "to promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power," and creating...
...when Autun was a part of prosperous Burgundy, whose dukes were more powerful than the French King himself. The church was originally intended for lepers and was dedicated to St. Lazarus whose bones are supposedly buried there and whom the people confused with the "Lazarus full of sores." In spite of its humble beginnings, it was gradually turned by the genius of one man into a rare treasure house. Except for two capitals by a fellow "master mason of freestone" and some minor pieces done by assistants all of which were destined for dark and obscure places-every column...