Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hours of tortured soul-searching, the board of regents decided that it could not work with a man the majority so thoroughly disagreed with, asked for and got Stout's resignation. But in spite of all the controversy he had stirred up, Minard Stout had also aroused a good deal of sympathy in Nevada for the dogged kind of courage he constantly displayed under fire. "His enemies," said the Las Vegas Sun, "will admit his accomplishments were almost enough to outweigh his mistakes...
...means simply that a criminal regime that cloaks its actions in moral slogans will, soon or late, be forced to start trying to live up to them. Says Kolakowski ironically: "A social system based on unlawfulness, oppression and unhappiness, when it masks itself with humanistic phraseology, does not, in spite of appearances, become more effective in the long run. At a certain moment, its facade turns against it because it was always alien to it." But, he adds, "in the larger view, the increase of hypocrisy is proof of moral progress because it testifies that what was done formerly outspokenly...
When the sputnik crossed the sky, it took U.S. satellite watchers by surprise. The Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., designed to correlate visual observations, was still unfinished. In spite of frantic efforts to make sense of reports flowing in from all over the country, its experts could not determine the sputnik's orbit until figures came from the Moscow radio...
...spite of having lost his "official standing" as chaplain for Princeton University's Roman Catholic students, dogmatic Dominican Hugh Halton (TIME, Oct. 7) made it clear that his war with the campus would go on. After appealing for funds for his Aquinas Foundation and for his "work, which has revealed a moral degradation at Princeton," Halton turned on one of the university's most distinguished names, Jacques Maritain. Three years ago, Halton revealed, he barred Maritain from speaking at the foundation-even though the French scholar is regarded by many as the foremost living Catholic philosopher. Huffed Halton...
...spite of such a distinctly non-professional demeanor, or partly, perhaps, because of it, Turner is held in high esteem as a teacher...