Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist and the hordes showed up at the department store, in spite of the rain. Standing with his wife, Wanda, daughter of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini, Horowitz explained to the crowd the reasons for his rare gesture: "You see, I don't play in New York again until January 1978, the 50th annivarsary of my New York debut. So I thought the public could this way see that I am in good health and good shape...
Harvard also had to keep an eye on Cornell. It won in spite of the weather, not because of it, out-playing the Crimson. "They adjusted better to the conditions than we did," Ford said after the game...
...Manager Gene Mauch motioned arsonist after arsonist in from the bullpen? I would snap off the radio rather than listen to that last painful "...going, gone" of an opponent's homerun, vowing never to turn it on again. And then I would sneak the radio back on again, to spite myself, and catch the Phils' non-existent rally...
Richards said yesterday Preterm plans to remain open in spite of the strike. "I anticipate that we will do everything we can to hire permanent replacements" for strikers, she added...
...first 36 years of the republic, the South held the presidency and the predominance of power. It managed to govern the country with some distinction in spite of the burden of slavery on its back and one hand tied behind, the black hand. With the burden removed, with both hands free, it might do even better should its chance come again...