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Word: spites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just four weeks ago, Penn smashed Harvard, 103-71, in the Palestra, but last night the Crimson, using a tenacious man-to-man defense, played even with the Quakers the entire first half, and never showed signs of letting up in spite of a bad streak at the start of the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Tops Cagers, 86-77; Tigers Play Here Tonight | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

...Quarrel arisen between Pallas, and Jove, respecting the Force of a particular. One of his mighty Thunderbolts, the University might have continued Obscure Forever. BUT the angered Jove seized-up the disputed Bolt and hurled it with great Spite into the University's Computer Central, causing a vast Short-circuit...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...Tone, without surrounding Hills to echo and re-echo their challenging Call! Hurling great Clumps of slimy Muck before them and behind them and to their Left and to their Right they gashed beyond all immediate Repair the once neatly trimmed Lawn and closed withunimaginable Petulance and noisy Spite on the front Steps in a Braying Horde! Victory seemed but a Scrape away...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...spite of its ambiguities, everyone should see Z because it is brilliant cinema and has superb acting and beautiful music. Probably more talent has gone into the making of this film than any other of the past year. The color photography by Raoul Coutard (who directed the photography for almost all of Godard's films as well as Jules and Jim by Truffaut) is exceptional. The camera is not a passive observer of the scene but plays an active role. The shots of the fights in the demonstrations are superb because the camera moves around and sweeps you into...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The Moviegoer Z at Exeter St. Theatre indefinitely | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

Last week all eight Ivy League presidents signed a letter which supported Yale's decision to keep Jack Langer on its basketball: restore in spite of continued NCAA wariness. The NCAA had declared Langer ineligible because of his participation in the Maccabiah games...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Ivy Presidents Back Yale But Take No Major Action | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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