Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acquires will be a permanent protection against the chaos of experience. But his pupil is wholly deficient in logical capacity. The professor's efforts to impart the elements of mathematics only succeed in confusing her and stifling her enthusiasm. The girl is unable to go beyond simple addition, in spite of the professor's warning that all of life, philosophy and civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such as a ten-place multiplication problem) faultlessly, it is because she has learned them not by reason but by the same...
...First light brought waves of U.S. B57 Canberra jets and prop-driven Skyraiders, which swept in under 800-ft. cloud cover to napalm, rocket and strafe the Viet Cong out of town. Final toll: 161 government troops (including five U.S.), to 184 Viet Cong killed. In spite of its obvious propaganda value, the Communists had been unable to hold the provincial capital...
Inner Resolve. In spite of Alsop's complaint, the press abroad quoted only sparingly from U.S. newspapers. While the French were scathingly critical of the Dominican intervention, the British, in general, were low-keyed in their response and often downright sympathetic. After its first harsh comment, the Times of London added: "If President Johnson has taken the deliberate risk of touching Latin American feelings on their most sensitive spot by recalling the days when Theodore Roosevelt policed the Caribbean with marines, it is presumably because American feelings too have been touched on their most sensitive spot - the prospect...
...production never drags. It does all that is humanly possible to curb Miller's obstinate philosophizing and heighten the playable moments in what seems on paper to be a pretentious bore. It is not so on the stage because the author, in spite of himself, has created real people...
...they seem to hang in one spot in the sky. But they also have two strikes against them before they take to space. They must be kept as light as possible because of the great rocket effort needed to place them on their high orbits, and in spite of their lightness, they must transmit a radio signal strong enough to be heard at that great distance. Perhaps more serious is the problem of keeping them on station above a selected point on the earth's equator. They are continually pushed out of position by irregularities in the earth...