Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alienating Yokoi from his countrymen helped keep him alive and sane during his long ordeal in the jungle; both he and Psychiatrist Haruo Kawai, who has examined him since his return, agree on that. In his youth, Yokoi was apparently made to feel inferior. Out of iji (spite), he decided to prove himself superior to everyone else in at least one thing: the capacity to suffer. "I had an extra-tough childhood," Yokoi explains. "So many people were harsh, cruel or downright brutal to me. By sticking to the jungle, I actually sought to vent my spite on all these...
...Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry, "he scored...
...long and painful experience," architect Baldwin says. "The attitude at Harvard is that anyone should be thankful for the privilege of working with this University. Well, I'd have to say the building is a success in spite...
...spite of the continuing war, rising food prices and crime rates, and general concern over drugs and immorality, 52% of the sample considered things to be going "well" in the country these days, compared with 43% who thought they were going "badly." Disaffection seems widespread, to be sure, but at the moment it appears hardly sufficient to sweep McGovern into the White House. Surprisingly, 62% of those polled said that they were not worried about rapid changes in their neighborhoods (35% were). An overwhelming 67% of the sample were "totally opposed" to school busing; yet oddly, only 6% regarded...
...appears to be declining, a fourth of all 18-and 19-year-old girls are married. More often than not, they had already had intercourse: more than half of them got married because they were pregnant. But on the whole, teen-agers actually are not very active sexually, in spite of the large number of nonvirgins...