Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the damage you have done, I do hope that you will print this letter. Perhaps you will realize how serious your "joke" has been. And students who have been misled into thinking they could pick up copies of the parody at the CRIMSON should at least be told they have, at your instigation, been put to a considerable inconvenience. W. Hinkham-Browne, Archivist...
...alone last week, 128 women were found guilty of unlawful demonstration, fined $9 apiece (two weeks' wages) with the alternative of one month in jail. Cried one: "We are all washerwomen. Please give us time to pay our fines." Next day 248 more went on trial. But in spite of the government's efforts, the black women's campaign against carrying the hated pass seems only to be beginning. Ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress, called upon men to join the resistance. "The men of South Africa," said he, "will not stand...
...spite of spontaneous student protests, and long-range concentrated efforts to bring a wider and healthier atmosphere of conflict and controversy to college campuses, the students invariably emerge on the short end. Censorship, restriction, and pressure are harsh words, and when they are applied to institutions of higher learning, they strike at the real meaning of education, a meaning that those too long separated from the search for knowledge have forgotten...
Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled...
...world? Can't I serve some purpose and be of any good?" But only a few months after this night of the soul, Vincent could write, "Well, even in that deep misery I felt my energy revive, and I said to myself, in spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. From that moment everything has seemed transformed...