Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of my strong opposition to your appointment as Vice President and action since becoming President, I wish you well. My opposition to the acts of your five immediate predecessors, and yours since becoming President, was and is, based upon my deep concern for our people's welfare and that of future American generations...
...CHUL straw vote are the freshmen, both the present ones and those of years to come. For the next one to three years, freshmen will be denied the right to express their House preferences. And all freshmen will henceforth live in dormitories, segregated from upperclasspeople--this in spite of CHUL's overwhelming vote of lip service to four-class House: they are the best arrangement "if financial considerations permit." But there is a plan which, at no expense, preserves and extends four-class Houses. Proposed independently by the Quad Committee and RUS, it affiliates all freshmen with Houses, and assigns...
...Italians, the Jews-and don't forget the American Indians. They were here first." What probably irritated the aging (73) but still feisty Daley even more is that the decision to withhold revenue sharing, which is currently being appealed, has forced him to go begging for money in spite of Chicago's financial good health. Daley has had to borrow $55 million from local banks to tide the city over a liquidity crisis...
...spite of these comments, Mayer liked working with the general. "I've had fairly close contact with several chiefs of state, and there's no doubt that de Gaulle was the star of the outfit," he said...
Nobody would, anymore, of course. Nobody, that is, except Rocky Balboa, the "Italian Stallion" Creed chooses who, in his way of innocence, still believes that dreams come true. Rocky is an ordinary guy cloaked in the garb of a hero. With his desire to fight the good fight in spite of the odds, he is an admirably uncompromising man in a compromising world...