Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder play two Broadway producers in this disjointed and inconsistent movie, which, in spite of its many faults, occasionally rises to classic comic heights...
Having defied Britain and shown its independence by executing five blacks in spite of a royal reprieve, the breakaway government of Prime Minister Ian Smith decided last week that a little mercy was in order. It commuted the death sentences of 44 blacks awaiting execution, including four who were within 40 minutes of hanging, to varying terms of imprisonment. Still awaiting word about their fate are 69 others held in the death row of Salisbury's maximum-security prison. Their number swelled at week's end with the sentencing to death of five Africans convicted of entering Rhodesia...
...response to all British protests, there has only been a numbing Chinese silence. Reuters learned that Grey has the run of the house and his food has improved a bit. Its only word from him was a telegram last Christmas: "I am in sound health in spite of difficulties." Reuters General Manager Gerald Long declares that he is ready to go "anywhere, any time" to effect Grey's release. "But the Chinese don't appear to be interested in talking." True to the best Reuters tradition, if the agency can get Grey out, it will apply at once...
...buying of gold, the same central bankers, only six days before their Washington conference, had held a similar session in Basel. There the Fed's Martin reasserted the U.S. intention of maintaining a $35-an-ounce price on gold, persuaded his peers to keep the pool going. In spite of their agreement to do so, rumors spread-and were vigorously denied-that both Belgium and Italy were dropping out of the pool; the rumors only fanned the flames of speculation. Martin emerged from the Basel meeting to describe himself as "satisfied" with its decisions. Bank of England Governor...
...screaming too. It's just a matter of keeping your bargaining position." Phillips, with an estimated $60 million out lay to develop the Hewett Bank field and with anticipated income over 25 years of $600 million, should make a tidy 900% profit in spite of its low selling price...