Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounded during the riots and who feared police prosecution if they were taken to the hospitals. An emergency medical service was set up with its own ambulance brigade, composed of every imaginable sort of vehicle. It had its own nurses and doctors, many drawn from the medical school. In spite of unfounded rumors concerning venereal diseases and even plague, a professor at the School of Medicine who called himself Dr. Kahn (nearly everyone used pseudonyms for fear of police reprisals) had only one prescription to give to the student princes and princesses: "Go take a bath...
...head of state as the only real insurance against the basic inability of the French to govern themselves without lapsing into one of the frequent periods of violence that mark their history. "After me, the deluge," De Gaulle suggested to the French in one warning after another. Now, in spite of him, the deluge came. He could not blame it on the politicians of the past or on circumstances that were not of his making. This time the responsibility...
...spite of a new corporate symbol and the influx of $450 million raised to modernize the creaky 117-year-old company, Western Union's growth rate has been discouraging. Telegrams, which still account for 46% of the company's revenues, were off last year; some modernization programs were slow getting started and, as a result, revenues rose a meager 5%. But Western Union does have some interesting possibilities. One is that, in spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller...
...spite of President Grayson Kirk's repeated references in public statements to a "small minority of 17,500 students in the university," the strike has a wide base in the undergraduate college...
...spite of such drawbacks, more and more women are going to work. Money is the main motive, but a job also fulfills emotional needs and helps women get rid of their tensions. The result, observers generally agree, is a happier home life-as long as the wife does not make more money than her husband. Says Mrs. Nilza de Vasconcellos, 48, sales manager for a textile factory in Rio de Janeiro: "A woman with a career can talk with her husband, instead of just listening to him. A dialogue is always better than a monologue, and an excellent introduction...