Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite nor anger...
...spite of the inadequacy of the Allston plan, Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, did not come to the Kennedy board meeting emptyhanded. Daly offered more than $3 million of Harvard's money to the Kennedy corporation, to be given through direct payment and land transactions. The payment would enable the corporation to afford the Charlestown-Cambridge split. The offer figured heavily in the corporation's decision to give Harvard a reprieve, until the fall. Harvard must now present a comprehensive Charlestown-Cambridge package to match what UMass is offering...
...spite of efforts by the GSAS, most officials and students at the Graduate School continue to believe that prospects for the academic market are dim, with no substantial improvement in sight. "It's possible that the intellectual and economic climate of the country is so bad at this time that no matter what we do, a large number of Ph.D.'s won't get jobs," McKinney says matter-of-factly. "But so far, at least, having a Ph.D. is still better than not having a high school diploma...
APPARENTLY, however, John Hough Jr. doesn't really want this to be a detective novel and subtly deemphasizes all aspects of the book that are such. The motive and method of the murder are quite ordinary, and, in spite of Gifford and O'Rourke's exertions, its solution is quite simple. The whodunit is so peripheral to the body of the novel, in fact, that the first real clues do not surface until three months after the killing and a sizeable lull in the narrative, and Gifford continues his account for a good 30 pages after the guilty verdict...
...spite of the risks they run, older homosexuals often come out simply to avoid the finally intolerable strain of living a lie. Explained Minnesota State Senator Allan Spear, 38, after he gave a local newspaper a story about his homosexuality last winter: "I felt I was going to be much more comfortable in a situation where I wasn't going to be hiding what I am, enduring gossip behind my back." His heavily liberal constituency took the news calmly and is expected to re-elect him. For Elaine Noble, 31, the first avowed lesbian to be elected to state office...