Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unwilling to commit ourselves fully to Israeli interests, it is indeed base to attempt to force the French into it. France with her Algerian problem, is as interested in maintaining Moslem goodwill as the United States, and hence is most unwilling to make the shipment, in spite of American pressure. Thus, by urging the French to this distasteful action, the State Department is irritating not only the Arabs, but also the French, who already are at wit's end politically and resent oppressive American interference...
...contrast between Fernandel and everything else in The Red Inn makes one uncertain whether it is a comedy or a morality play. The sobriety sometimes seems to call for a conscious moral judgment, but the frivolity of its characters does not merit one. In spite of this ambiguity, there is enough of Fernandel at his best to reward the patient viewer...
...author of "The Negative Power" on its staff. Writing of this sort is as much a sin as segregation itself. Such articles, which give no credit for any reasonable efforts at conforming to the Supreme Court's decision, make us almost anxious to join Dixie demagogues just for spite. Do you honestly think it was a report of news, or just an opportunity for a Yankee snob to feel smug...
...refuse students on the basis of race. Though Alabama turned down Pollie Ann on the grounds of "her conduct and marital record" (she is involved in a divorce action), it reluctantly notified Autherine, on the very eve of registration day, that she would be allowed to enroll. In spite of the fact that she was barred from all dormitories and dining halls. Autherine registered. Her life since then...
...proposal passed in a voice vote without debate in spite of former opposition of some Republican Senators to Bowie's Far Eastern views...