Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead a revolution from 5,000 kilometers away?" complained Juan Domingo Perón in a recent interview. Last week in Venezuela, the former Argentine dictator was wholeheartedly making trouble for his successors in spite of his distance. Reflecting his wishes, Peronistas in Buenos Aires renewed their sabotage campaign, setting off ten bombs and starting three fires in a fortnight...
...Cambridge anti-smut drive appeared doubtful today, in spite of a City Council order to the police department to remove "indecent and smutty" literature from local stores...
...scandal had its inevitable effect on Cornelia's new religious order. It was not until eight years after her death that full papal approval was granted to the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. But in spite of opposition from the hierarchy and sniping from Pierce (he continued to flail the Catholic Church until his death at 80 in 1883), Cornelia enlarged her order. The society spread throughout England, and in her lifetime chapters were opened in France and the U.S., where the society now runs 36 schools, including Rosemont College on Philadelphia's Main Line...
Servan-Schreiber quotes the report (the authenticity of which he guarantees) of a Major Marcus who, after nine months serving in most regions of Algeria, sums up: "In spite of the optimism of official statements, the situation is not improving. Unable to distinguish between rebels and peaceful citizens [we] are forced to engage in blind repression. Each false fellagha killed is replaced by ten real ones-to the point where our forces, faced with the enmity of the entire population, will either have to practice a policy of extermination ... or give up." Adds Marcus: "Here, lying has become second nature...
...lies in rhythmic precision; and this in turn is best achieved by instruments, not the voice. The first and third songs seemed wholly unrewarding. I will admit that the second song has considerable merit; but even here the merit accrues not by means of the medium but in spite of it. I should like to hear this music with say, a clarinet playing the vocal part...