Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road to Morocco. In spite of all the trimmings and the press of the unregimented crowd, most of the contestants turned in some flashy golf. Hope, teamed with burly Pro Mike Souchak, couldn't hit his hat and got lost in Cypress Point's tricky sand traps (on one hole a photographer ground his golf ball into the sand to make things a little tougher for picture purposes). He and Souchak failed to qualify for the final round. "I'm going snow-blind from sand," said Hope. "This is like The Road to Morocco...
...Crimson ski team will enter the Dartmouth Winter Carnival on Feb. 8 and 9 with "better prospects than last year" in spite of a lack of coaching, according to Joe Poindexter, varsity captain...
...brilliant lad," recalled Admiral Brown, "and, in spite of, or, if you will, perhaps because of his handicap, deeply appealing." Queen Frederika grew fond of the boy while the Peurifoys were stationed in Greece, and often asked him for long visits to the royal palace in Athens. During these visits young Clinton Peurifoy played freely with Queen Frederika's two children. One day Prince Constantine said to his little American friend: "My sister and I have been talking about you, and we have decided that you must be the favorite pupil of Jesus...
...fact, some of it is poor. Also our research is not as good as it should be. There have been many bad comments about our dearth of research." Except for medicine, none of the university's eleven professional schools is in the front rank, and in spite of Pitt's traditional emphasis on engineering, it lags far behind its neighbor Carnegie Tech as a technological school. Adds Litchfield: "Our humanities and natural sciences are fairly strong. But the social sciences are weak. We have been grossly inadequate in our work in anthropology. We are practically starting instruction...
...have been asked by the management to say officially that I am the only performer who has ever been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera in spite of his voice." So writes Cyril Ritchard in a Met program note. At any rate, the Met hired him to stage and star in its new production of Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole, and Manager Rudolf Bing has rarely had a better idea. Actor Ritchard's singing may only be an educated guess ("My voice has four legitimate notes," he says, "the rest is just growl"), but he makes...