Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Washington (without a single blister). Bookman decided that this particular assignment had been one of the most pleasant interludes in his reporting career. Said he: "Sitting around a campfire spooning beef stew from a bubbling cauldron and singing songs in the firelight was one of the best soul-restorers an economics reporter could possibly find...
...world apprehension abroad over last month's two bigger explosions), was subject to massive and at times confusing cutting in the name of security. But even so, it might, as some of its scenes dramatically demonstrated, have remained what it deserved to be-a simple record of a soul-shaking and historic event...
Avenues to the Soul. Since then, Perry Smith has ruled over his 290 students and eight buildings with a genial but unchallenged authority. A big (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered man, he started each day by shaking hands with every child in the lower school-partly to put them at ease and partly to teach them good manners. He played the double bass in the school orchestra, gave a course in Shakespeare, taught an amiable sort of social philosophy under the title "Social Standards" (alias "S.S." or "Snappy Stories"). Though North Country Day goes in heavily for art, music...
...look at his own topflight British education (Eton and Oxford), and wondered how he stood. It could, said he, "do nothing better for my body than Swedish drill and compulsory football, nothing better for my character than prizes, punishments, sermons and pep talks, and nothing better for my soul than hymns before bedtime and after breakfast...
...ditches a well-intentioned but bum bling Anglo-Indian, because he has "ten thumbs and a soul like a boiled...