Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CURSED spite, that I was born this wrong to write." Paraphrasing Hamlet with bitter humor. TIME'S Common Market correspondent Jason McManus cabled that message to New York last week in the heat of reporting his part of the cover story on Charles de Gaulle's veto of Great Britain's application to the Common Market. For Correspondent McManus, 28. the week's events had a special impact...
...sell a stock is an act of contempt." This is why widows are often reluctant to sell stock that their husbands purchased. "It is not that they develop a sudden respect for his judgment-a respect never manifest in his lifetime. It is that they liked him in spite of his poor judgment, and are reluctant to break the personal ties...
...spite of the gross inadequacy of the B-26 air cover plans to begin with, the operations originally scheduled were drastically curtailed on orders from President Kennedy...
...military from whom Chemist Land may get his largest orders. The ability to photograph the enemy in color and see the picture almost immediately will be of enormous advantage in many dangerous situations. No enemy of the U.S. is likely to enjoy this advantage for years; in spite of frantic efforts, says Land, the Russians have not yet succeeded in copying even black-and-white Polaroid film...
This behavior is indefensible in itself, and if it were the product of simple spite or high-handedness, the anti-union sentiment which now pervades even liberal circles in New York might be justified. But, in fact, the union's policy is the result of a feeling that while it is apparently faced with decimation of numbers and prestige, no one is paying any attention to its plight. It is convinced that the country is willing to abandon it to the fury of the second industrial revolution, and there is almost nothing in the government's record during the last...