Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ardently wooed the Peronista vote, even promising to dissolve the Assembly if they gained control, trailed with 1,839,545. Juan Perón, in his time a popular tyrant who once polled close to 5,000,000 votes, drew fewer than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots in spite of the well-organized, well-financed campaign he had conducted from his Venezuelan exile...
...whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that he is dead ... He was a nice man, untidy but gentle, loved by all in spite of his insane desire to be loved by all. He believed in magic. He did not work as hard as he should have. But in spite of the severity of the critics-who generally understand music 50 years after the public-Mr. Menotti's music should be commended...
...winner herself: Miss Universe (Peru's Gladys Zen-der-36-23½-36) dismayed the contest backers because she is just three months under 18, the minimum eligible age. But after hurried hotel-room conferences, the judges decided to let Miss Universe keep her title in spite of the technical cloud...
...followers of Shivers and Daniel had tried to suppress the liberals by refusing to grant their delegates official status at the 1956 state convention. "We insist," said he. "that there must be no more rigging and stealing control of Democratic Party conventions by cynical and ruthless political manipulation." In spite of his political activities, Abernethy has never been known to propagandize on campus, was up for a raise when the board of directors fired...
...engineers or had medical training. Their ages generally fell between 25 and 35. Medical men, lawyers and a few other professionals were hard to place in U.S. jobs. But the academy found that man-hungry U.S. industry and education were eager to take the scientists off its hands. In spite of language difficulties, one research chemist dropped into an industrial job at $15,000 a year. Some others did nearly as well. With this encouragement, the academy is planning to bring 300 more Hungarian refugee scientists and professional men to the U.S. in the next few months...