Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard fought game at Penn Friday night, the Crimson came out on the short end of an 86-81 score, in spite of fine individual performances by Roosevelt Cox (19 points) and Glenn Fine (12 assists...
Penn's height advantage began to show at the start of the second half, as the Quakers pulled away on to an 11-point lead on lob passes over the Crimson defense. Harvard again battled back, closing within four points with a minute left, in spite of the increasingly tenacious Penn defense. Bob Hooft did the damage for the Crimson, driving the baseline and challenging the Quaker front court...
...special relations, whatever you like. But at the same time, you have other friends in the area. And your interests-99%-are with the Arabs, not with Israel. I'm happy because Carter has really recognized this fact, and he's playing the game evenhanded, in spite of the fact that there are special relations between you and Israel. I think Carter will leave his fingerprints on history as a true American who shows the true image of the U.S. in a new era, and that can remedy what has happened in the past...
...that happened in 1977 may not have been in an Executive order or a law passed by Congress or an idea spoken by Jimmy Carter. It may have been the extraordinary web of civilized human relationships spun among the men and women of Washington and world power almost in spite of themselves...
...this year moved up into the National Collegiate Athletic Association's prestigious Division I. Evansville hired big-time Coach Bobby Watson from Oral Roberts University, recruited some hot-shooting freshmen and revived an old mascot: a cartoon riverboat gambler holding a winning poker hand of four aces. In spite of a record of one win and three losses, spirits were high as the team boarded a chartered DC-3 for the 70-min. hop to Nashville and a game against Middle Tennessee State University...