Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the Crimson regulars managed to start in spite of asorted sprains, Bruises, and charley horses. With very little substitution possible, owing to a dearth of reserves, most of them finished the game dead-tired...
...women think Robert Kennedy is a "doll." Well, to me he is just a mop-haired, ambitious young Catholic whose father made his fortune out of banking, Wall Street and selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government...
Small Point. In Fort Worth, after Sam Childers, 21, and his bride of four months "had words," he decided to spite her by using a 12-gauge shotgun to blast off his own toes, said in the hospital: "It wasn't a real argument...
...while actually he helped to destroy them. In a full dress study that will probably be the definitive work on Gogol in English, Russian-born Biographer David Magarshack (Chekhov,'TIME, Sept. 28, 1953; Turgenev, TIME, Sept. 27, 1954) makes clear that it was Gogol's genius, in spite of himself, to open windows in the sealed winter cabin of the Russian soul...
...spite of one Ku Klux Klan cross-burning a few miles outside of town, Charlotte, N.C. (pop. 158,800) quietly accepted the news that four Negroes will be distributed through the two junior and two senior high schools. Greensboro and Winston-Salem, the other cities that announced they would integrate simultaneously with Charlotte (TIME, Aug. 5), have also avoided any ominous reaction. In all three communities, officials hope that their tiny concession to the U.S. Supreme Court will keep the federal courts at bay, serve as a sort of inoculation against any large-scale integration...