Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...printer and Don Bernardo Bernardez, an elderly monarchist leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...
...spite of these rulings, the four groups went ahead and held their meeting on May 19, drawing a crowd estimated at 250 persons. On the next day, John J. Theobald, president of Queens College, suspended the four groups--the Student Council, the Queens College Liberals, the Young Progressives, and the Committee for Democracy in Education
Instead, the market turned as contrary as a razorback hog. Without any Government supports whatever, and in spite of the huge supply, pork prices started to climb, and kept right on climbing. By last week Chicago hogs were at $20.25, a fat $4.05 above the old support level...
...atomic weapons. Speaking last week before the Detroit Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Dr. Lawrence R. Hafstad, director of the AEC's Division of Reactor Development, answered the critics. If practical atomic power ever comes, said Dr. Hafstad, it will probably be because of, not in spite of, military needs...
...Roosevelt in Retrospect, Gunther has brought these talents to bear on the complex personality of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In spite of his avowed aim of getting at his subject's "root qualities and basic sources of power," Gunther has conspicuously failed to "pin something of his great substance against the wall of time." Getting inside a man is something quite different from getting into a continent or a country; it takes more than visas. What Gunther has achieved is a lively journalistic profile pieced together with materials largely lifted from the mushrooming literature on F.D.R. and loosely held together...