Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE are several possible reasons for this general allegiance in spite of protest. First, the young people in Yugoslavia possess a real pride in their country. Yugoslavia for centuries has been under foreign domination by the Turks, Austrians, and other major powers. Now it is remarkably independent. In Yugoslav cities people still often mention how the Partisans drove the Nazis from their land at greast costs, but without Soviet assistance. The students are tired of old men's war stories, but they have a deep respect for past suffering...
...spite of the brutal butchery that he is imposing in other areas of federal spending, Nixon is working to find room for one important new program that will cost nearly $2 billion in its first year alone: a campaign to improve the natural environment of America, centered at the start on combating water pollution. Last week the President signed a bill to create a three-member Council of Environmental Advisers, and he made a point of inviting reporters to the Western White House in order to explain his feelings...
...pretty hard go of it. I had two jobs at the time, and was spending all of my money just supporting the two kids. I knew a girl who was doing this thing. She knew that I knew about it, but we never discussed it. I liked her in spite of her profession...
...good deed in a naughty world, bright, nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail. Charlie loses the National Spelling Bee and slinks back to town, looking for all the world like an extinguished light bulb. And behold!-life goes on. In spite of failure and humiliation, observes the prescient Linus, "the world didn't come to an end." It is a message that should not be missed by sensitive children. Neither should the movie...