Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Premier"; if that did not work, he would call on the U.S. and Britain to arbitrate the dispute. Then, for the best part of two hours, the old man made his case for ratification now: "The Soviets will indeed negotiate, and they will do so not in spite of, but because of, the realization of the Paris accords...
...spite of the approaching season of holiday cheer, television's week began like a vast coast-to-coast autopsy. March of Medicine performed a gory operation on a man's heart artery in front of the TV cameras. Medic, sounding less and less like a Dragnet-in-bandages and more and more like daytime soap opera, told a pathetic story about a young girl with breast cancer. Robert Montgomery presented a full hour of smilin' through muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis. But while he recuperated, the televiewer was able to find cheerier fare...
...Since 1948 the sciences have dropped 8%, and in spite of all the hoopla about atoms, physics has suffered the most. In 1900 four out of every 20 students took physics. Today's count...
...Parent . . ." Had it not been for Mount Dora's courageous weekly newspaper Topic, the case might have ended right there. But the Topic's editor Mabel Norris Reese had long been in battle with the bullying sheriff, and in spite of all reprisals-a flaming cross on her lawn, the poisoning of her dog and the smearing of "K.K.K." across her office windows-she was ready to wage war again. The Platts, she told her readers, were of Irish-Indian stock, probably descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony" of Roanoke. "If you are a parent...
...stock returns, few could doubt that solvency is the criterion for many of its ventures. Nevertheless, the administration can at times lean over backwards to rationalize policy which is dictated purely by financial considerations. Such has been its technique in the most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than just plain "lack of funds...