Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of this outlook, the Corps feels it needs the universities-"to understand and guide and research and participate in this crazy experiment," as Deputy Director Walter Wiggins puts it. But just as much, the Corps feels the universities need the Corps. The Corps and the educators who work closely with it are commited to a fusion of education and work. "Their separation," says John Seeley chairman of the department of Sociology at Brandeis, "is a post-Renaissance heresy. The sickness of education and the sickness of enterprise consist in their separation...
...spite of Johnson's assurance that Great Society and War on Poverty programs would not be sacrificed, that is exactly what has happened. The War on Poverty was originally intended to increase from $1.4 billion last year to $3 billion this year. Instead, the President is asking for only $1.75 billion. In many areas, this will mean cuts in existing programs, to say nothing of new plans that will have to be junked. The same has been true of other Great Society programs, such as those relating to the problems of cities...
...last week Dufhues announced that for "personal" reasons, he would not run for the post. For lack of any other suitable Erhard man, der Dicke last week was grimacing at the prospect that he might have to take over the C.D.U. chairmanship and become a politician in spite of himself...
Before that breakthrough, in spite of huge and largely untapped coalfields, Australia imported coal from as far away as South Africa, still suffered power blackouts when supplies ran low. Today, 94% of Australia's growing power needs are generated by coal, there is ample coke for the continent's expanding steel industry, and a quarter of last year's record 50-million-ton coal production was available for export...
Terrible Twins. One day Waldo dies "of spite like a boil burst at last with pus." Arthur flees the house, returns after three days, and is mercifully committed to the local asylum. It remains for the twins' twin dogs to prove that Waldo, if slightly incredible, is edible. Hungry dogs will swallow anything...