Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last throes of a searing election campaign, French politicians hardly noted a significant democratic victory on another front. In spite of fierce opposition from the Communist-run C.G.T., the biggest labor organization in France, the Catholic Christian Trade Union (C.F.T.C.) and the Socialists (Force Ou-vriere) signed a contract with the nationalized coal mines giving graduated pay rises based on productivity, with paid vacations to 250,000 miners. The next day 10,000 aeronautical engineering workers won a similar contract. Both agreements are modeled on the one signed more than three months ago with the nationalized Renault auto plant, France...
...spite of the headlines, the experts are now fairly well agreed that they have found the best method to date for teaching reading. It is really a combination of several ways to attack words and sentences, and it includes both word-recognition and phonics. Unfortunately, at a time when good teachers are at a premium, the system demands rare teaching skill. Thus, practice may vary from good to bad, but the theory remains consistent...
...Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. [TIME, April 2, 1951]. If Mr. Rodman's book is on sale a decade hence, I hope he will not be embarrassed by the pages in which he makes fun of the Crucifixion. Can Mr. Rodman be quite sure, in spite of the fact that it reminds him of a DeMille picture with crowds of "extras" in it, that some of the millions of people who view this painting are not genuinely moved by it, or that they do not even consider it, as I myself confess to doing...
After 14 days of bewildering testimony the all-male, blue-ribbon jury took just three hours, nine minutes to find Broady guilty. In spite of the verdict, though, most of New York's 2,000,000 telephone subscribers were having trouble getting over that uncomfortable feeling that they might be addressing a large, unseen audience every time they answered the phone...
...difficult for the Negroes than for whites in similar economic circumstances to get on the relief rolls, and relief grants are often lower for Negroes than for whites... Hospitals, libraries, parks, and similar recreational facilities are much poorer for Negroes than they are for whites. This is true in spite of the fact that the higher sickness rates and the inferior housing conditions in Negro sections make the need for all sorts of health and recreational facilities so much greater in Negro neighborhoods....Streets are not keep up in Negro section of Southern cities the way they are in white...