Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of the adverse outcome, which left the laxwomen with a 3-3 season record, Field was not overly dismayed. "We outplayed them despite the breaks of the game. It was a superb game that really pulled everyone together," she said...
Direct experience, I would argue, is the very basis of each of the above steps. This direct experience includes components gathered from the senses (and their mechanical or statistical extensions), from the intellect (the conceptual framework), and very often, in spite of frequent denial, from the emotions. Thus, the scientist's direct experience as observer, interpreter, hypothesizer and tester of the phenomenon under investigation, along with the accumulated direct experience of his scientific and personal past, are not only inseparable from his work, but absolute requirements...
...Senate's approval of the Panama Canal neutrality treaty was, in spite of the "reservations," a step in the right direction [March 27]. Arguments both for and against the treaties are sound. However, it merely requires simple logic to ascertain that while ratification of these treaties will not necessarily guarantee perpetual euphoria, failure to do so can only induce grim repercussions. Panama is a time bomb that the Senate must defuse with caution, by approving the resolution of ratification...
...ALMOST impossible to perform this particular balancing sequence really well, and Bauer went about it with visible tension. She almost grabbed her partners' hands, and the final arabesque expressed not so much a triumphant affirmation as a sigh of relief for everyone in the auditorium. In spite of that, her Aurora in this scene and elsewhere was delicate and endearing, each meticulously careful gesture hinting at the hesitance of the not-quite-grownup child...
This private truth has made Greenfeld more sensitive to our common human feelings than most American men would choose to be. In spite of this his diary is never sentimental, self-pitying or gratuitously bitter. His anger at medical and educational bureaucracies, even at a fate that has dealt him what he calls "the joker in the bourgeois deck," is always tempered by stoic irony. "Instead of being a driven writer," he notes, "I have become a driving writer." Entry for Sept. 22, 1976, two days after Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream opened to rave reviews...