Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They will be buying into a company that is succeeding in spite of itself. Political pull rather than prowess has generally been the requirement for a seat on the board since 1942, and GAF's auditors, ad agencies and law firms have sometimes changed with national administrations. Not until its seventh chief executive, Dr. Jesse Werner, was appointed in 1962 did GAF get a career president; Werner, who has a doctorate in chemistry from Columbia, joined GAF as a researcher in 1938. Even though he introduced professionalism to the job, he was hindered because he could make no acquisitions...
...city has squeezed skyward for want of horizontal space, but these modern towers lack the airy quality of European cathedrals or New England spires. They strive towards heaven irreligiously. The tone of the city is very Jewish, a bit raucous, and more than a little disappointed in spite of itself. One rarely smells good luck in the bustle, and never fullfillment. But stimulation, hope, excitement, yes, if sometimes of a baleful, hopped-up variety. Manhattan seems often like an exhausted animal on No-Doze, chasing its own tail...
...doubtful that Charles de Gaulle would cut off that magnificent nose just to spite his face, but last week the razor was stropped and poised. After two days of debate, the French National Assembly rubber-stamped its approval of De Gaulle's military program for the next six years, including the somewhat farcical force de frappe. By a vote of 278 to 178, the Assembly gave De Gaulle a green light to pursue his intransigent course. He will have an opportunity to try the razor's edge next week, when the NATO foreign ministers assemble in Paris...
...miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris, the invitations specified evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...more significantly, Rainey was no martyr to the local newspaper editor who wrote: "We must not cut off our noses to spite our faces. It means too much to our community to say that we won't obey the law to the best of our ability (for) our economy will suffer, and prospective industrialists will surely pass us by." These sentiments may not be particularly noble; and that is the point. The path of justice and the road to riches have finally merged for a large segment of the population of this small, representative Mississippi town. Respectable Mississippians...