Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...thousand Chinese dead lay in the snow next day. In spite of incessant air strafing, and a rain of shells from U.S. artillery and from cruisers and destroyers offshore, the enemy maintained his pressure. As U.N. troops were evacuated, the perimeter shrank. Star shells and flares illuminated the scene at night-which was the U.S. way of countering the enemy's preference for night fighting...
...much for Berliner Zeitung Critic Hans Ulrich Eylau, who cautiously wrote he thought the play's denouement a little hard to take. Gulped Eylau: "This is not to be a critical final judgment. It is just the result of a first encounter with a play that in spite of all its shortcomings is ... an enrichment of our scanty stock of political contemporary poetry...
...Your refusal, in spite of earlier promises, to give any publicity at all to the important fact that Harvard University students were both direct and indirect beneficiaries of the Red Feather Community Fund in either your advance story on the College Combined Charities Drive (10/25/50), or in your story on the opening day of the drive (10/31/50). (The three buried lines in your later editorial (11/1/50) were wholly ineffective, not merely because they came after most of your readers had already made up their minds, but also because you were entirely too brief to summarize fairly the written statement...
Dunster beat the taller Winthrop basketball team with sheer determination in a consistently sloppy game. Kirkland, last year's champions, threatened the Bellboys in the third quarter but faded. Eliot had little trouble throughout its game. In spite of giving the Gold Coasters seven foul shots, they held them scoreless in the third quarter...
...spite of this and his late election to the paper, Roosevelt beat out all his classmates for the managing editorship in January of 1903. After a term as m.e., FDR's promotion to the presidency was virtually automatic...