Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that you have made your decision, I will fight to win that office with all my heart and soul...
Stevenson urged his audience: "Where we have erred, let there be no denial; where we have wronged the public trust, let there be no excuses. Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. But we will never appease, we will never apologize for our leadership in the great events of this critical century...
...resenting the intrusion of the Nationalists, have become loyal to Chiang. Last winter, 12,000 young islanders were drafted into the Nationalist army without complaints or repercussions. Formosa's local government, under able Nationalist Administrator K. C. Wu, has become, in the opinion of Americans in Taipei, the soul of rectitude...
...Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
This is every novelist's problem in a nutshell. But it is particularly the problem of the novelist who tries to portray convincingly the mind and soul of a religious hero...