Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus of complaints sounded familiar to Pandit Nehru, it was only natural. Back in 1937, writing of himself in the third person, he said: "In spite of his brave talk, Jawaharlal is obviously tired and stale, and will progressively deteriorate if he continues as president of the Congress Party. He cannot rest, for he who rides a tiger cannot dismount...
Everyone knows that Calcutta's water system is precariously close to collapse, but it has not been overhauled since 1926. Sewage invariably seeps into the drinking water, carrying possible death to every tap. In spite of a belated garbage-collecting campaign, piles of refuse still lie festering along Calcutta's winding "gullies," and on street after street, vendors of rotting food still hawk their fly-infested wares. In the teeming bus tees (slums), where people drink out of the same slimy ponds they wash in, the disease spreads relentlessly from hut to hut, bringing with it its agonizing...
...also called in the leaders of four major political parties, got them to agree to help him set up a coalition government to rule until the scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern by palace rule as Prime Minister, Cabinet and Parliament rolled into...
...Thing." Most politicians assume a haughty obliviousness to foreign aid, in spite of its obvious results and the dedication of those who administer it. President Dilli Regmi of the Nepali National Congress simply refuses to believe that the U.S. has built any roads at all. Singh declares that the U.S. antimalaria campaign has brought more mosquitoes into Nepal than ever. When asked about the giant Rapti Valley reclamation project, he merely shrugs, for he comes from a different part of the country: "That is an isolated place unfit for human beings...
...midfield probably will be the strongest it can be, in spite of the loss of Karl Bjork and Jim Tulenko for the entire season...