Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been spying her, every evening after supper, ostensibly unravelling math problems for school, but in reality, of course, documenting the sordid details of her mother's scary sleep-walking, her father's hunger for inheritance, plus all the humorless nagging and nit-picking French bourgeois coupling. (Not for spite or for blackmail, but she confesses--addressing the camera like a fellow detached spectator--merely for her own amusement...
Flamboyant Adventurer. Pursuing the investigation in spite of Dassault, police found that De Vathaire had compiled what he regarded as an incriminating dossier concerning the finances and sales of the Dassault conglomerate. Suspicions of blackmail were reinforced when police learned that the seemingly respectable accountant had recently become enmeshed in the French underworld. Around the time of the death of his wife, who drowned in a bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant...
...vigilantes of Interstate 94 almost produced the opposite effect. As traffic backed up, drivers risked life and fender to pass the righteous threesome, climbing embankments and zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile...
...help in other cities that are desegregating this fall-Omaha, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Dayton. At least that is one of the findings of a report issued last week by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In a 315-page study, the bipartisan five-member commission concludes that in spite of the bitterness and violence that arose in some cities, most notably Boston and Louisville, in recent years most school desegregation in the U.S. "has gone peacefully and smoothly." The commission based its report on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif...
...spite of the scare caused by the mysterious disease that felled some legionnaires who had met in the city two weeks before (see MEDICINE), the congress expected to draw one million people, as many as did Philadelphia's July 4 festivities and the Chicago Eucharistic Congress of 1926. By contrast, the first congress of 1881 in Lille, France, was attended by only 800 people. That initial one was inspired by French Laywoman Marie Tamisier to foster devotion to the Eucharist and belief in Christ's "real presence" in the elements of bread and wine. Like the 40 subsequent...