Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grown-up counterparts will be B.U. students from Long Island, heavily into New York--they would never think of booing Yastrzemski if he were a Yankee. No wonder there's an edge to the Bostonians' insults--it's like the American track team in China, last week, impressed in spite of themselves because the Chinese fans seemed to really mean it about friendship, not competition, but dubious deep down inside--"Americans like to win," one runner told reporters firmly, as though it was an indictment of the Chinese. (Then at the final banquet half the team got drunk and walked...
...response of a reasoning man to the horrors of war. How opposed to the flatulent conceits of the Bulgarians, for whom heroism is embodied by bewhiskered Sergei Saranoff leading the harebrained charge, and for whom "higher love" is typified by the couple that coos and clutches effusively. Yet in spite of the laughter still echoing in the theater--for this is a funny play--Bluntschli wins out soberly with a perfect Shavian love affair with a heroine he has never kissed...
...said that he hopes--in spite of what he said was the unpredictability of the legal process--that the case will be thrown out on one of the motions for dismissal filed by defense attornies last August...
Kissinger, in spite of his recent failure, would still like to continue pursuing the gradual method, since it keeps all the keys in his pocket. The resumption of the Geneva talks, which appear to be the next step, make the Soviet Union a central factor in any settlement. So, as Sadat threatens Kissinger with a new alliance with the Soviets, via the opening of the canal, Kissinger attempts to shift the blame for the failure of the Sinai talks on the Israelis, even though the sacrifices asked of them were beyond reason...
...Egypt, in spite of President Anwar Sadat's recent arms shopping in France, remains dependent on the U.S.S.R. for weapons. No matter how edgy Sadat is about such dependence, he knows it would take years to retrain Egyptian forces to use an alternative weapons system...