Word: elan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts, and particularly on new states, not only European, which have linked themselves with those which initiated the movement of recovery. There is no doubt, for example, that Japan is liberating herself from the parliamentary miasma which she acquired a few decades ago, and which today arrests her vital elan. We fully understand and justify this elan. The squeals of spinsters and the sermons of archbishops make us laugh...
...upon my equilibrium when, driving away from one of the houses in search of a final noggin, my progress down Memorial Drive was interrupted by an M. D. C. squad car, equipped complete with two officers and radio. An unaccountable glow of happiness had compelled me to dash with elan through a yellow light, which happiness the officers did not seem to share. In reply to their greeting inquiry as to whether I wanted to pay a hundred dollar fine, I parried that I had but two dollars and was not over anxious to part with them...
...With an elan vital worthy of an amorous novelette Author Steeman, whose book won the 1931 Prix du Roman d'aventures, writes of five murders in a villainous row. For all the police could do, the row might have gone on around the world. A languorous heroine stops that?at least one man must be left alive to prevent her murdering herself...
When at long last the awaited German invasion broke, Foch was on hand to put his theory into practice, watch the other generals do the same. In the face of the enemy's first crushing advance, the generals threw their men to death with a strictly impersonal elan. When Foch's subordinates warned of being exterminated, Foch enheartened them: "Get smashed to the last man, but hold on like leeches. No retirement. Every man to the attack." These tactics fed the soldiers so fast to the machine-guns that the Germans nearly broke through...
Mating George the first with Florence in the architects' elan...