Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy rejected? The first reaction of one Kennedy supporter was that Ted had been victimized by senatorial "jealousy, envy and spite." That was too jaundiced an explanation for a subtle situation, although there certainly was some deviousness in the voting. One Senator organizing the Kennedy support insists that he had "28 eyeball-to-eyeball commitments 24 hours before the vote," but that four Senators did not keep their pledges on the secret ballot. Suspicion centered mainly upon Washington's two Senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, because Kennedy had opposed Seattle-based Boeing's supersonic transport; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff...
Such a system is technologically possible in the near future-in his book Expanded Cinema, Gene Youngblood says it is possible by 1978. But if Youngblood's prediction is to come true, it will be in spite of the current communications industry...
...classic look: the short, straight, collarless jacket, the slightly flaring skirt, and hems that never budged from mid-knee length. Wearing the broad-brimmed Breton hat that was her hallmark, her scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck, and her four fingers held firmly together in spite of severe arthritis, she would feel for defects. Working directly on the model, she often picked a dress apart with the point of her scissors, complaining that it was unwearable. Her fashion empire, at her death, brought in over $160 million a year...
...were eager to run against him-a brash notion for a newcomer. He has promised to vote for Tennessee's Howard Baker, 45, if Baker tries to push Scott aside when the new Senate convenes this month. Scott, of course, resents Dole. In spite of four hours of talks between them last week, Scott still sharply opposed Dole's selection as chairman...
...After all these centuries of trying, the search for paradise is not so easily abandoned. If man cannot find paradise in one place, he will look for it in another-and so he has today. He has found it within himself. In spite of all that Freud has taught the 20th century about the ambivalence of inner drives and longings, a growing number of modern thinkers have put their faith and hope in the psyche as the last refuge of idealism in a corrupt, unhappy world. Charting the physical decline of one civilization after another, Historian Arnold Toynbee took comfort...