Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association began its scheme to overwhelm Harvard three years ago with its decision to replace the traditionally fragile wooden goalposts with ultramodern (and indestructible) steel ones. Finding that students remained docile in spite of this insidious innovation, the haamonsters handed down an even more radical dictum--NO ALCOHOL IN THE STANDS. This, in itself, was enough to drive droves away from the Stadium, but a tenacious few (who had flasks) grimly went on getting tickets...
...Sooner the Better. Their shrewdest move was designed to force Adenauer to deal with the East German satellite in spite of his determination not to: they gave East Germany control of all civilian traffic and trade between West Germany and West Berlin, which must cross East German territory. "The sooner the politicians of Bonn and West Berlin realize that they cannot undermine the East German regime, the better it will be for the populace of West Berlin," said East Germany's Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht...
...that of listening to all proposals, no matter how unjust they may seem. If the French delegation desired to influence world opinion as to the injustice of discussing the Algerian question, they accomplished little. Having voted to hear the Afro-Asian complaint, the UN members will do so in spite of France's absence...
...press conference, Benson said: "I assure you, I have not been amused by some of the old efforts that are being made to make a political football out of the farm situation. I feel very firmly that agriculture is basically sound today, in spite of the prophets of gloom...
...spite of these early bunglings, the library did manage to survive. But it did not achieve its present position as the foremost university library in the U.S. without its share of crises. No man knows this better than 66-year-old Keyes (rhymes with skies) DeWitt Metcalf, who for 18 years has been-Harvard's chief librarian. Last week, as he got set to retire, Metcalf could report with as much authority as any man alive just what it means to run a great empire of books...