Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of Nixon's disdainful public view of M-day, there were clear signs of dismay and confusion around the White House and among those who believe that any President deserves support in pursuing his foreign policy. Dean Acheson, no stranger to criticism of his own foreign policy when he was Harry Truman's Secretary of State, weighed in with the observation that open season on Presidents should be limited to "the quadrennial donnybrook," an Achesonism for presidential elections. Henry Kissinger, the President's chief foreign affairs strategist, told a group of visiting Quakers that the Moratorium is "counterproductive" because...
...including "active regions"-the eruptions of hot material that appear against the "cooler" regions of the sun's surface. Active regions increase and decrease over an 11-year cycle. "This year is supposed to be a solar maximum-a period of maximum solar activity-but in spite of that, the sun has been notoriously quiet," Reeves said. "But this week the sun has perked up again...
...brought ten minutes of war in front of the chops and asparagus each evening, often adding an other hour of thoughtful commentary. No war had ever been covered so thoroughly. No war ever lasted so long, resisted explanation so obstinately, or became so hopelessly opaque in spite of the heroic agitation of television analysis. The point is not of course that TV is entirely responsible for this situation, but that it is responsible to a considerable extent for the special kind of frustration which the war has produced...
...contact with the blind community indicates that many blind persons are unaware of the fact that the Science and Medicine sections of TIME are available to them on tape from Science for the Blind. This is true in spite of the fact that we have tried to notify the community through notices in Braille periodicals and by direct mail to our own mailing list. The blind people who receive the tapes have been enthusiastic...
...this in spite of your cursory, patronizing attitude concerning the political beliefs I espouse. The silent majority of the people in our nation are beginning to vote the way I think and to resent the "care from cradle to grave" philosophy which your articulate liberal-left minority are smugly taking for granted as a way to political power in this country...