Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many expressions of approval, this tone was typical: ". . . an appeal to the finer sensibilities of thinking people . . ."; "it inspired in me a spirit of exaltation and rededication . . ."; "as, you say, 'religion informs art and makes it greater than itself,' so may religion inform journalism. . . ." Reader Carl G. Doney, E president emeritus of Willamette University, probably summed it up best, in saying: "Most of all we are grateful to Miss Anderson for what she is and what she does...
...tennis-playing ladies had taken a terrible drubbing from the U.S. Wightman Cup team last summer at Wimbledon. Last week the English girls began getting free instruction from an enemy agent, onetime U.S. Women's Champion Alice Marble. The thing she missed most in their playing: the killer spirit...
...brothers and sisters; they use no profanity nor unkind language; they use no weapons of defense. They are temperate in eating and drinking, they use no vain display of clothes. . . . They do not go to law before judicial courts, but bear everything patiently, as they say, in the Holy Spirit. Who would suppose that under this sheep's clothing only ravening wolves are hidden...
...been the guiding spirit ever since. Today, as Health Minister, he cannot exercise direct control, but remote control is good enough. Energetic Jennie Lee, his dark-haired wife, is a Tribune director, and many a friendly tea at their house could pass for an editorial conference. Other directors: bright, up-&-climbing Michael Foot, leftish M.P., and Patricia Strauss, wife of another founder who is now under secretary of transport...
...rehearsal: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please play lightly." When the orchestra finally caught on, Charles Munch threw the men a kiss and shouted "Bravo!" In the musicians' locker room afterward, there was a buzz of enthusiasm; a good many of the Philharmonic players had caught some of the Munch spirit that is proverbial in Paris...