Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of vigorous denials, I understand that serious consideration has been given to the idea that the United States might barter the withdrawal of American troops from Germany against a Russian withdrawal from the satellite countries. Both the Western and Russian policies of the last few years have run their course. Both sides, it is felt here, are groping for new approaches...
Globetrotting British Historian Arnold Toynbee turned up in Manila, and after looking it over and thinking it over, reported a change of mind to the London Observer. "In spite of my affection for America," he wrote, "I have sometimes felt a touch of the same irritation as my fellow Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Britons at hearing my American friends confidently assert that America has done better by the Philippines than the rest of us Westerners have done by those Asian and African countries that have been temporarily under our rule. My glimpse of the Philippines has changed my feelings about this...
...butane-bottle head and a boiler-plate shield. The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling BX cable give it'away. Says Stankiewicz: "It's most menacing from the front, but it's futile in spite of its posture...
...spite of the telecast, an overflow crowd is expected. 1,400 will be seated in Sanders, according to Edward S. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and the overflow will hear the speech from Memorial Hall...
Onrushing Crisis. These peculiarities might have got Rossby into serious trouble, in spite of his recognized genius, but the onrushing war was a crisis, and he thrived on crises. The U.S. was building the world's biggest air force, and soon it would need the world's biggest corps of meteorologists. There were only a few in the country, many of them hopelessly behind the times. The Government's solution was to put Rossby in charge of a monstrous, high-pressure training program. He crisscrossed the country, setting up branch units at New York University, U.C.L.A., Caltech...