Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of what may seem to read as disappointment, I have been impressed with the supportive nature of the gay lifestyle in New England. I cannot begin to name even a fourth of the rap groups, newspapers, organizations, service centers (health centers, counseling facilities, etc., all you perverted straight people) so on and so on, that are available for those who seek such services. It appears that gay women are to be found at the women's activities in the area, and I know gay men abound at the dances and bars in town...
...least in the context of early Cold War politics and the limited capabilities of Soviet bombers seems understandable if not justifiable. But even after the Soviets' development of long-range missiles made the idea of an untouchable Spanish base obsolete, the U.S. continued and increased aid to Spain in spite of Franco...
...spite of the complicated social problems she encounters in her work, she persists in offering idealistic solutions. She maintains that knowledge about abortions is becoming more widespread so that problems of late abortions will diminish. And she advocates decreasing machine and drug care for terminal patients and increasing human care, despite her knowledge that medical personnel and families of dying patients feel extremely uncomfortable with them and avoid them when the patient is close to death...
Somehow, in spite of environmentalists' success in blocking the resort, Mineral King's transition from an issue pushed by public pressure to one backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...
...text is readily apparent. The bibliographical notes are filled with works written within the last fifteen years. And as Flexner herself says: "Nothing could be more dissimilar than the situation of women then and now." Yet the text shows few changes in ideology or essential research, in spite of the fact that the thinking of women and about women has undergone incredible changes in the last fifteen years. Suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are no longer names in a book of social history; they are heroines in a national and international sense...