Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kosygin had been eclipsed by Brezhnev. Still, until he fell ill last year and was replaced as Premier by Nikolai Tikhonov two months ago, he had maintained an iron grip over the vast state bureaucracy that he commanded. World leaders had learned not to judge Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that had swept away other Soviet leaders...
...spite of Bradstreet's achievements, she scarcely rates a sentence in Louis Untermeyer's 757-page Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry. The magisterial Norton Anthology of Poetry carries 19 women out of the 200 poets represented by name and The New Oxford Book of American Verse, twelve out of 77. This anthology redresses the balance. Say the editors: "The one art in which women have always excelled is poetry." The question of whether there exists a common female culture and sensibility, as postulated by Poet Adrienne Rich...
...scenario calling for complete U.S. freedom from foreign oil supplies is probably a petro-pipedream. But the notion of using solar satellites to capture vast amounts of energy may not be very farfetched at all. In spite of considerable scoffing at the sci-fi grandiosity of the idea, a report published last week, after a threeyear, $19.5 million study undertaken by the Department of Energy in collaboration with NASA, indicates that there are no insurmountable technological hurdles in the way of solar power satellites (SPS) as a major alternative energy source...
...Proposition 2 1/2 is going to mean some huge problems for Cambridge next year but we will survive in spite of it," Susanne Tompkins, vice president for research for the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, told a crowd of more than 300 local residents and students...
...impressed by the efforts to conserve energy made by the communities you mentioned in "Looking Ahead by Cutting Back" [Nov. 10]. The fact that in spite of their sacrifices-using candles, turning down the thermostat-they could cut back only around 17% shows that conservation merely slows the rate at which we use up our resources. We still must develop a way to provide the energy we need...