Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should disaster threaten in spite of all precautions, try to relax, go limp and let yourself fall gently. However, Dr. Manson admits that such sang-froid "takes practice...
With the success of 1963 to bolster my confidence, I again attempted to form a group to fly to St. Louis during the recent Christmas vacation. TWA confirmed that the rate was still $105 per person. In spite of the fact that the airlines had not changed their fares, the HSA this year raised their fare to $115 per person, making a gross profit of $10 per person. With the smallest group allowable this would mean a profit of $250 and I feel sure that the HSA with its massive advertising campaign secured more than the 35 people...
When Vespasian finally took the citadel, Josephus went into hiding with 40 other Jews in a cave beneath the city. His companions were resolved to resist to the death, but Josephus, impressed in spite of himself by Roman might and discipline, wanted to surrender. To solve the impasse, Josephus proposed a kind of Jewish roulette: they would kill each other, one by one, by drawing lots; the survivor would then kill himself...
Sprucing Up. One of her main jobs will be to spruce up Bonwit's image, which has been somewhat fading of late. Bonwit's still ranks with neighboring Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, but it was once the fashion leader. In spite of exclusive designs from the U.S. and Europe, the store does not attract as many as it would like of the fashionable women who set style, does not have a reputation as a fun place to shop. Miss Custin intends to spruce up outside and inside, as she did in Philadelphia. "Display," she says...
...bomb's proponents-AEC Commissioner Lewis Strauss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Senator Brien MacMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy-carried the day with Truman, and the possibility of falling behind in the arms race was narrowly averted. In spite of his stand on the H-bomb, Lilienthal had no use for appeasement or unilateral disarmament. In answer to one proposal to surrender rather than use the bomb, Lilienthal commented: "It isn't important how long one lives; what is important is that while he lives, he lives...