Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malaria, and mercury as an antisyphilitic agent. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia (one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence) used bloodletting so extensively that even his colleagues marveled at the survival of his patients. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, "The patient ... sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine...
...Life Building in Rockefeller Center, including Associate Editor Burton Pines, who had written the prerescue version of the hijacking story, Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who happened to be in New York. Neff maintained phone contact with Halevy, getting details of the story in spite of interruptions from a wary Israeli censor who listened in on the entire conversation. Calling from Nairobi with the latest details from there and from sources in Uganda was Correspondent Eric Robins...
Died. Daniel Gearhart, 34, convicted mercenary from Kensington, Md., who served three days with defeated anti-Communist forces in the Angolan civil war last year. Gearhart, along with three Britons, was executed in Angola, following a "war crimes" trial of 13 white mercenaries, in spite of pleas for the condemned by President Gerald Ford and Queen Elizabeth...
Switzerland's inflation rate over the past year, for example, has been only 1.2%. Since January, consumer prices have actually declined. In spite of widespread fears that the rise in the franc would hurt exports by making them more expensive to foreign buyers, the country has amassed its first trade surplus in memory: $103 million in the first five months of this year. And unemployment stands...
...Deep South before the Civil War. Most of her knowledge of slavery was gleaned from former slaves whom she met while she was living in Cincinnati (one of the busiest stops on the Underground Railway), though she did visit a working plantation in Kentucky briefly in 1833. In spite of the impact on the world of her celebrated novel, it turns out that except for the issue of slavery, she had scant interest in politics...