Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...according to Professor Went [Sept. 9], produce an "incredibly toxic" blue haze. I have lived in Pittsburgh before smoke control. I have known gasoline smog in Southern California, and pulp mill smog in the north. I have endured wood "smog" in mill towns and near forest fires. Somehow, in spite of the "blue haze," the mountain air seems pure, refreshing and invigorating. The action of trees producing oxygen from carbon dioxide and water should outweigh any "arboreal pollution." All pollution should...
...spite of Bales' assurances...
...narrative has second billing. What happens, then, does not really count. What counts is Warner's message, which he states and restates with a bald clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal's ambition, a life whose very vagueness concealed a wealth of opportunity, whose uncertainty called for adventure, a life whose unwieldiness...
...sections," wrote Kriss, "the first may prove toughest to nail down. What is it beyond the Kennedy cult that nourishes his popularity? He seems to have made a goodly number of blunders; yet none of them have hurt his standing in the polls. Is his popularity increasing in spite of himself-or because of himself...
Still, in spite of direct government intervention, not all the sprawl appeared to be reconnected. Before the workers walked out, two federal conciliation boards had recommended an 18% wage increase, 8% of it payable this year and 10% more next year. Summoning Parliament to debate the crisis, Prime Minister Lester Pearson's Liberal government sought legislation that would authorize only the 8% increase. With an eye on Canada's increasing inflation, the government proposed that railroads and unions bargain out any remaining raise between themselves. The strikers would have none of that, and Parliament soon approved the entire...