Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Negro, for 400 years of patience, tolerance and dignity in spite...
Fort Wayne, Ind., is a base for 19 important industries, but the visiting businessman who attempts to reach them by air often has a hard time-because Fort Wayne, in spite of its population of 162,000, does not generate sufficient air traffic to maintain a busy commercial schedule. TWA two years ago dropped it as a scheduled stop; United and Delta still serve the city, but outbound travelers have to scramble for seats on planes already filled before they reach the city's Baer Field. The result is that Fort Wayne, in an age when most businessmen...
...spite of this situation social policy makers were required to operate in the dark, so that however much or little impact their programs might have neither they nor anyone else would have anything more than an intuitive, craftsmen's judgment of what worked and what did not, there would be nothing much else...
Some trades might have been honest efforts to improve a ball club. The deal that sent Maury Wills to the Pittsburgh Pirates seemed like spite-but might have been bright. Four years ago, Shortstop Wills set a major-league record by stealing 104 bases, and in the two seasons that he has been team captain of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Dodgers have won two National League pennants. The most common story was that Wills had angered Owner Walter O'Malley by quitting the Dodgers' post-season tour of Japan. Yet O'Malley is one of baseball...
Harvard's coach Nat Harris rates the B.C. game as "a toss-up," in spite of his squad's strong record. He said of Boston's loss that "They outplayed Brown, but couldn't score." Brown's goalie compiled an amazing 54 saves in the game...