Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pragmatism and spirit of cooperating. An article last Sunday describing Ford as a "hard-line, Pentagon-oriented cold warrier" and citing his "stinginess toward domestic social programs" (including fights against Medicare, housing bills, minimum wage raises, mass transit funds, and the poverty program), goes on to declare that "in spite of his votes, his partisanship and his public appearance, Mr. Ford had the foresight and flexibility to make some necessary changes in the Republican way of doing things in Congress." His naming of certain moderates to a Republican research committee is taken as sufficient evidence to "suggest a willingness...
Beckett's two-act play is a highly abstracted vision of existence and of an enduring human spirit. The major character is an aging and chatty woman named Winnie who is buried, first up to her waist and later up to her neck, in a mound of sand. In spite of her tortuous condition Winnie maintains a constant banter of praise for her life, always hitting upon one thing or another that is "wonderful" about her circumstances. Her day, the start of which is signaled by a mysterious bell, is begun with a prayer, almost too ironical, "to a world...
...spite of the death and debris that has badly crippled Cyprus (see box) and caused at least a thousand victims on either side, small Greek forces continued to hold out against overwhelming Turkish power. Skirmishes raged round the Kyrenia area as ill-equipped Greeks defended such small Greek Cypriot villages as Karavas, Lapithos and Agridhaki. High on Mount Kyparissovouno, nine miles west of Kyrenia, mortar shells ignited massive forest fires...
...that we can truly understand the tragedy of the destruction of the Spanish Republic. We see avid militiamen raising clenched fists out the windows of railroad cars headed for the front. We then see them scurrying like scared rabbits through the din and smoke of the battlefield, advancing in spite of their terror. We are witness to heaps of mutilated bodies lying in fields where, a year earlier, wheat was almost ready for harvest...
...character who partakes in a struggle we ourselves are not part of. Or, naive college students, we can travel to Spain in an effort to take a draught of an elusive, transmogrifying elixir. In one case our hero is killed, in the other we lose our pants. Yet, in spite of ourselves, the dreams continue, and, as the end of the Franco era hastens, we catch the stronger strains of a guitar and glimpse smiles on the faces of the children who crowd the streets of Barcelona. Spanish history is stained with rivers of blood, remaining true to the vision...