Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price for the protection of the dollar-and only time would tell just what that cost to the economy would be - it was also moved by self-interest in coming massively to the aid of the pound, which continued to weaken de spite Britain's rate hike. Had Britain been forced to devalue the pound, the resulting chaos might not only have snarled world trade and weakened the West, but would almost certainly have undermined the dollar as well. It was clear to the Americans that they had to act just as resolutely in defense of the pound...
...illustrated history of chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann; $7.95) is an anecdote-laden, fascinating-in-spite-of-itself account of all the major London clubs. What may well prove to be both the best-illustrated and best-written of the Kennedy memorial books is The Kennedy Years (Viking; $16.50), a massively complete compilation of photographs with equally compendious text by the New York Times...
Should disaster threaten in spite of all precautions, try to relax, go limp and let yourself fall gently. However, Dr. Manson admits that such sang-froid "takes practice...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, whose recent bolt to the G.O.P. probably saddened more Republicans than it did Democrats, voiced the hope that the G.O.P. "eventually will become the conservative party in the nation, in spite of Rockefeller and his ilk." If not, added Thurmond, whose losing Dixiecrat defection from the Democratic Party in 1948 had apparently taught him nothing, "then some other party would have to arise...
Earlier, the keynote speaker of the convention, state senator Beryl Cohen of Brookline said that the new legislature will not stand for Volpe's "care taker approach" to government. "Volpe will be the beneficiary of welfare programs in spite of himself," he prophesied, adding that the Democratic majority is large enough in each House to overrule the gubernatorial veto...