Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...levied at the varsity defense was that of sloppy play at the points and occasional loose action around the crease. In fact, on a third period goal Eagle center Jack Cusack gained such good position that he appeared to be half a foot inside the crease. In spite of goalie Harry Pratt's protest the score was allowed...
Eagle Coach Snook Kelley indicated that two of his starters and a second line wing were ailing, but would probably play. High scoring center Bill Daley was weak after suffering an infected tooth, and Captain Joe Jangro said he would start at his right defense position in spite of a bruised arm. The other starters are goalie Jim Logue, who turned away 31 of 32 shots against Harvard in the opener, sophomore defenseman Tom Martin, and forwards Ron Walsh and Owen Hughes...
...housing, agricultural, and unemployment compensation cuts affect substantial segments of the low and middle income brackets, the restless majority recovering slowly in the wake of the recession. But the President is optimistic about business recovery; in fact, he is counting on it desperately to raise needed government revenue. In spite of this emerging bull market, however, he is strangely reluctant to take such measures as restoring the cut in the capital gains tax (which cost the government $4 billion in annual revenue) the Administration made four years...
Marshal Pétain. "In spite of everything, I am convinced that in other times Marshal Petain would not have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...
Despite the formality of such occasions, some diplomatic hosts are better known-and liked-than others. "Some make the grade because of the countries they represent," a Brazilian diplomat once explained it, "and some in spite of the countries they represent." Britain's Sir Harold Caccia entertains infrequently, but the British embassy is decidedly a place to be seen (although Lady Caccia has earned many a raised eyebrow because of her custom of moving guests from one after-dinner conversational cluster to another). Belgium's Silvercruys gives small but elegant dinners at his home, forbids shop talk...