Word: spites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SPITE OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IMPOSED UPON Yugoslavia on May 30, massive smuggling of gasoline keeps traffic heavy on the streets of Belgrade. Though the economy is a shambles, the regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has still not been brought to its knees. And the war rages...
...novel called The Queen and I, which imagines that the royal family has been consigned to a public housing development by a stern republican government that has overthrown the monarchy. The book is both funny and impudent, but it contains a portrait of Elizabeth that is admiring in spite of itself. Townsend plays up Her Majesty's awkwardness, but of all her clan she adjusts best to her alien circumstances, simply by applying common sense and pluck...
...feel that I made the right decision in choosing Harvard. I've formed another family among my friends here. The overall experience, both good and bad, has been invaluable. When graduation finally arrives, my final impression of fair Harvard will be that I succeeded both because of, and in spite...
...people here, both classmates and teachers, whom I've liked a lot. I'll always remember the bittersweetness of this college, that so many people could gather in one place to do such interesting things and yet not enjoy each other more. I would have liked that day, in spite of Leverett Towers, to have looked out that Dunster window and said to my friend, "God, I love this place...
...spite of these admittedly daunting obstacles, I plan to proceed. It's not every day that we get a Democratic woman in the White House...