Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner fervor...
Book thievery at Houghton has been non-existent in spite of the apparent temptations. The only access to books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says...
Last week in London, the I.C.F.T.U. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) formally set itself up in business. In spite of some fraternal squabbles and a contest between American and British delegates for domination of the new labor international, the organization's birth pangs were relatively mild. It had managed to build the framework in which labor unions from 53 countries-including America's staid A.F.L., Britain's Socialist T.U.C. and (tentatively) the Continent's Catholic unions-could unite in their fight against Communism...
...Holy Places. In spite of its truculent attitude toward U.N., Israel went ahead with preparations to receive pilgrims. On the Israel side visitors will see such Christian shrines as the Dormition of Mary on Mount Zion, the Cenacle where the Last Supper was spread, the Ein Karim home of John the Baptist, and Nazareth...
...spite of the outlay, the Information program has not overcome hostility toward the Occupation or the United States. The failure represents no lack of effort or want of size. Quality of personnel and production have weakened the undertaking. Unlike the French, who from the start have spent a large portion of their Occupation budget on the transmission of French culture through intellectuals, the U.S. has been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting...