Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aussie fashion he laid it on the board: "We have been at war with each other, and feelings in Australia were strong and bitter. But we participated in negotiations for peace without any idea of penalties or reparations. I say this merely to establish it in your minds. In spite of events ten years ago, we have not approached Japan in a spirit of hatred or unpleasantness. Friendly association is our watchword...
Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues; and perhaps he felt he had himself made enough public use of his own life. In spite of his request, the six years since his death have left us three biographies and countless articles about his life...
...finger-waving, prophetic, Victorian, virtuous, gloomy, saintly, fanatical, guilt-ridden, tubercular, self-righteous, animal farming but essentially Christian down-and-outer was, before these things, a writer. He believed that writers have messages. In spite of the grand variety of prejudices social critics now project at him, his I think was simple...
...Negro pastors he said: "We have the responsibility of freeing our white brother from the bondage of crippling fears." To the white majority: "The nation is looking to the white minister in the South for leadership. I am aware of the difficulties that many white ministers confront. But in spite of these difficulties, the Christian minister must remember that he is a citizen of two worlds. Not only must he answer to the mores, but he must give account to God. He must again and again hear the words of Paul ringing across the centuries: 'Be not conformed...
...varsity responded by upping their beat to a 38, but the Tigers had already passed them. At the finish, both crews were rowing well in spite of the conditions, but it was Princeton who had the reserve power to win the race...