Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indonesian air liner mistakenly signaled an emergency. As soon as the plane landed, it was surrounded by fire trucks and a dozen police Jeeps. Guns ready, police waited for skyjackers to act. Passengers and crew, meanwhile, presumed that something horrendous was happening outside, and they refused to debark. In spite of radio communications between plane and tower, nearly an hour passed before the confusion was cleared up and Fiumicino Airport returned to normal...
...from Minnesota in 1961 on a pilgrimage to the bed of the dying Woody Guthrie, his only ambition to "make it big." The fact that along the way Dylan became an oracle was almost accidental, involuntary. While his musical contemporaries were becoming mirrors of society, Dylan, almost in spite of himself, became its conscience, a reluctant Eumenide. Instead of warbling teen-age love songs, he wrote about bigotry, nuclear destruction, war profiteers and social desolation. Dylan was background for a campus rap session, inspiration for an essay. He was the brooding presence uniting thousands of unsatisfied students, a pioneer...
Their own sexual satisfaction, however, is often less important to transexuals than the desire to match their bodies to the gender with which they identify. The major psychological problem after surgery, according to Dr. Fisk, is that in spite of careful counseling, "expectations are often way out of line with reality." For those who want to keep their operation a secret, there is also the chronic tension that goes along with the fear of discovery and exposure...
...addition, bedrooms and classrooms at Harvard will remain at their present temperatures in spite of the official request by the Federal Energy Office for thermostats to be lowered another six degrees, Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday...
...seats in the 120-seat Knesset, would be able to form another coalition of perhaps as many as 69 members. It thus could continue the disengagement talks. The bad news was that its most essential coalition partner would probably be the National Religious Party, which in spite of a 10% drop in popular votes had kept its critical eleven Knesset seats. In return for siding with Labor, the N.R.P. was likely to make one firm foreign policy demand: that Israel not surrender those parts of its "ancestral home" around Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron that were captured...