Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clean Cut. In Vineland, N. J., a disorderly-conduct charge against Jose Antonio Montes, 26, was dropped after his wife testified that she still loved him in spite of the fact that he had bashed her with a bottle of bleach...
...grateful to the Almighty to have given me the opportunity to join the ranks of those ready to endure a sacrifice for the sake of country and profession. I am getting old now; my blood pressure is high, my heart doesn't work properly. In spite of the strength of my will, these troubles may not allow me to resist the longtime hardships of prison life. But if I should die during my detention, I shall consider it a fit end to a life of idealistic struggle, for I have still not lost a particle of hope regarding...
...spite of such seeming offhandedness, the Congressional Record is in a sense a publishing wonder. It is a daily of more than 200 pages, with an average circulation of 42,000, no managing editor, and in the members of Congress, 537 contributors, all free to edit their own copy Printed overnight at a cost of about $16,000 per issue, it is delivered all over Washington earlier than the morning milk. Though the Record has never missed its midnight deadline, only a system as intricately interrelated as a Swiss watch keeps it functioning...
Time measured by the rotation of the earth will continue to be used, in spite of its inconstancy, for catching trains or getting to the church on time. But the cesium clock will be the arbiter for super accuracy. It will have no cumulative drift and can be read with an error of less than three parts in 100 billion (one second in a thousand years...
...spite of the noisy complaints by union brass, airline pilots, splendidly skilled and incessantly trained in their trade, realize and accept the necessity for top safety standards and sharp enforcement. While they are helpless to prevent demented passengers from lugging explosives aboard their planes, they remember too well the score of near misses in the air and the ballooning number of fatal crashes. The airlines carried 380 million passengers in the past ten years, and killed only 1,300. But the U.S. death toll alone since January 1958 is an alarming...