Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the demonstrations, Johnson emerged on top after his days down under. Along with a planeload of gifts ranging from a brace of albino kangaroos to miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly in his ponderous praise for Prime Minister Holt and his references to American affluence. He dwelt endlessly on his own limited wartime service in New Zealand and Australia; and his martial derring-do sounded more Mittyesque with each telling, until, at Melbourne's airport, he conjured up a picture...
...dynamics of urban life," in President Johnson's phrase, it marched against the problems of slum housing, overcrowded streets, underemployed minorities, inadequate schools, polluted air and water, rising crime, complicated tax structures and shrinking recreational facilities. And it produced its prodigious array of social and economic legislation in spite of the tension and upheaval caused by a costly war. Indeed, the 89th went further than any other in modern times to exorcise the once-fashionable lament that Congress has become hopelessly incapable of tackling 20th century problems...
...money winner (TIME cover, May 6, 1946). Arden babied her horses as much as she did her customers, piped music into their stables, ordered her grooms to treat the animals' cuts with Ardena Eight Hour Cream, massage their legs with Ardena Cleansing Cream. Because, or in spite, of this treatment, her Jet Pilot won the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Trackgoers remember her for post-time pep talks to her jocks in the paddock, when she exhorted them: "Get out in front and go, go, go!" They responded, and in much the same way as did her executives, when she pounded...
...average Canadian seems about as un-American as Everett Dirksen. He drives a car designed in Detroit, watches Bonanza and Batman, reads magazines edited in New York, and frets over international Communist conspiracy. In spite of all this, the average Canadian does not like Americans...
Although the upturn left bears licking their wounds, few Wall Streeters were willing to bet that the bulls were firmly on top once more. In spite of some rosy earnings reports-IBM last week reported a record third-quarter profit of $131 million-many investors are still worried about the possibility of an economic downturn next year...