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Word: spites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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HARVARD: In spite of the injuries sustained Saturday, the Crimson is deep enough to do battle for a full season. More than any other team, the varsity will grow stronger as the talented sophomore hoard gains experience. The momentum built up in two non-Ivy games will carry through Cornell and Columbia, and an upset over Dartmouth--which will come off a tough B.C. game as it came off Holy Cross last year--may get to be the rule...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Varsity to Tie for Second As Penn Takes Ivy Title | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...month since rugged, tough Police Chief Eugene Smith stopped them cold in their attempt to halt integration at Hall and Central high schools, Little Rock's dwindling band of diehard segregationists has seethed with frustration. Last week, in a senseless outburst of spite, a handful of maniacs shattered the calm of Labor Day night with a spree of bomb throwing-and again ran smack into hard-hitting Gene Smith, backed by rock-hard Little Rock public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Dynamite & the Cop | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...spite of the fact that the CRIMSON poll or any other informal survey would indicate that Cambridge's undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called 'god,'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...born of France's stubborn insistence on atomic equality and a bigger say in affairs of the Western alliance. Britain, angry about French pretensions as well as resentful of the growing friendship between Germany and France that might reduce British influence on the Continent, was reacting with childish spite in its popular press (see PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Waiting for Ike | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...that Leffingwell has indeed lied about his past, it would seem that Advise and Consent has already gone on too long with echoes from a decade of news headlines. But Author Drury now shows how vindictive his challenged President can be, and how vicious a Senator touched by envy, spite or just the power bug. Utah's Brigham Anderson is himself vulnerable, and when his enemies dig up a homosexual incident in his wartime past, they drive him to suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pols at Work & Play | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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