Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burst into Assistant Secretary of State William Day's office, brandishing his cane and shouting "By God, don't your President know where the war-declaring power is lodged? Well, tell him, by God, that if he doesn't do something, Congress will declare war in spite...
When the front of the column reached the hotel, the march stalled. The line of people, which stretched all the way back to the park, remained immobilized for more than one hour, in spite of the march officials' frantic attempts to get people moving again...
...regrets. "During my entire six years of freelancing," he says, "I thought of almost nothing but money, as most freelancers do. Now I expend about one-fifth the energy as an editor, and I go home at 5:30 and forget about it until the next day." But in spite of all the hazards, freelancers continue to avoid the temptations of security. At one point when he was feeling "particularly unstable," Brock Brower applied for a college teaching job. When he was accepted, he told himself: "Oh, to hell with it. I'm not feeling unstable any more...
Kaiser was quietly proud that he was successful in spite of being a high-school dropout. He left school in upstate New York at 13 to help support the family. Henry worked his way West, signed on with a paving contractor, established his own company at 32, and lined up his first contract-for two miles of street in Vancouver. Because speed was worth money, he always made it a point to finish jobs ahead of time; on a California paving contract he laid a mile a week instead of the usual two miles a month, was constantly visited...
London. But in spite of the book and the free cups of carefully brewed coffee available at the meeting, no one was certain that harmony would prevail. "Fifty percent of our delegates are pessimistic," said Brazilian Representative Georges Maciel, "and the rest feel no optimism." The reason was that no nation had a very clear idea of how to eliminate the present surplus or stop the flood of newly harvested coffee beans that continues to roll...