Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of Harvard's a priori superiority, the Bulldogs put up a considerable fight. While Yale's five hits were all solid, the Crimson's victory was filtered through a series of bloopers, errors and cheap hits...
...when he quit in disgust at Goulart. As Minister of Economic Planning, Campos knows just how big a task he faces. In 31 months of Goulart, the value of the cruzeiro plummeted 83%, and the cost of living rose 340%. The confidence that had always helped Brazil grow in spite of itself disappeared-and so did many outside investors. Private foreign investment went from $85.1 million in 1960 to a trifling $4,500,000 last year...
Industrialization and contraception alone will not solve the population problems of the world, Piel continued. He pointed out that in spite of a high standard of living and widespread use o' birth control techniques, the population of the United States is increasing at the rate of 1.8 per cent each year...
...overly familiar, and what powers Mr. Charlie is not its topical subject but a contemporary mood, the taut-nerved spirit of violence that seethes through the play's language and characters. When Baldwin finally relates the problem of color to the problem of evil, he shows more childish spite than tragic sense: "If I ever see Him, I'll spit in His face, in God's face...
...spite of clamorous pressure, Congress has not acted so far. Rachel Carson's poignant death last week at her home in Silver Spring, Md., after years of suffering, came at a time when the whole problem was under cool consideration. It seems likely now that any law which may finally be passed to regulate pesticides-some of which are really dangerous-will be reasonable and constructive. For her luminous life of The Sea, and for her part in wakening her countrymen to the possible perils from pesticides and other chemicals, Rachel Carson may be remembered for many a spring...