Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make inquiries about Mark's weaknesses, the responses were illuminating. In his applications, Mark explicitly stated his desire to become involved in grass roots health care, treating the medical problems of people as social as well as medical phenomenon. This data and his undergraduate degree in anthropology, in spite of his good medical and science grades and several research projects he participated in at Harvard, led admissions officers to question seriously his commitment to medical science...
Abnormally reclusive in spite of his rapid rise to political prominence, Berlinguer seldom talks about himself. On the rare occasions when he does, it can be illuminating. Once he admitted that "as a boy, I was always a rebel. I protested-to use a word that's in style now -over everything. Religion, the state, the cliches people used, and social customs. I had read Bakunin and believed myself an anarchist...
...willing to say, as Guitarist Roy Buchanan does, "Probably the reason I never made it big was because I didn't care whether I made it big." If there is room in rock for a shy, devout, balding man of 36, Buchanan may make it big in spite of himself...
...USING FORCE TO QUELL RIOTS. Despite the impression left by many news reports, we have handled the disturbances with a great deal of restraint and patience. In spite of the disturbances, we are maintaining open bridges for travel between Jordan and the West Bank; free traffic is moving throughout Israel and the West Bank. No capital punishment has been imposed. By and large, there has been free access for newsmen to report the disturbances, which is quite extraordinary if you consider that Israeli democracy is operating in a state...
First, the motion to delay passed by only a one-vote margin, in spite of its support from Hartman, who, while anxious to resolve the affair, required more time to prepare a response to the policy panel's report. As he said in a statement to the faculty,"... I have invested far too much time and energy in the appeal to allow it to end in an overly hasty, procedurally defective fashion..." The narrowness of the vote must be taken as a regrettable indication of a desire to be rid of the affair, not to resolve it equitably...