Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took action on the matter when only 400 subscriptions were sold this fall in spite of an all-out sales drive by members of the News staff, according to Nancy L. Proger '59, president...
...withdrawal will have no effect, if the proposed seminar is a pointless exercise in spite, if Harvard can, in fact, derive great benefit from the NSA, there is no point in supporting the Student Council's hastily approved move...
...twentieth century is shifting its "musical center of gravity" from "extra-musical" reactions to those "purely musical" Chavez noted. He elaborated this idea by saying that in the nineteenth century "we were too human" and now "we are human in spite of ourselves...
...opera--but a one-act opera. Fellini has made his movie with careful attention to every detail except the patience of his audience. But his sombre exhaustiveness gives La Strada an essential truthfulness in spite of the melodramatic violence. The stark, stony backgrounds, for instance, of which we see so much: no carpenter could have put them up, no paper-mache could duplicate them. They are real...
...schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite of the fact that he really is a patate, he is quite evidently more interested in doing dirt to ol' Gladstone than in doing good to any-body...