Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last session. The man who would head it would be Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to rake back over those years when the Republicans were outside looking in. But authorizing one special committee, Democrats argued, meant opening the door to many "special" committees and violating the spirit of the reorganization act. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry was already knocking at the door with another special committee to mull over the problems of small business...
...comment on "this measure being of a bastard parentage." He thought it was rather strong language, "particularly as the origin of the committee was in the gentleman who is now President of the United States." He recalled that 13 Democrats had voted against the reorganization act-"with the spirit of which they are now so much concerned"-and 17 were not interested enough to show up for the vote. On the other hand, he recalled, 23 Republicans had voted for the measure...
...offices, spent 5½ hours going through the files of one Delhi office. A police official turned up a copy of Molotov's famous Paris speech of Aug. 5. He did not like what he read. "Who is this man?" he snapped. But Molotov was present only in spirit...
...followed by a union organizer from the same department, who testified that he had been a militant Communist for 28 years and had thought it 'a capitalist, stunt' when the manager faced him with kindness, but had been changed by the power of the manager's spirit. . . . I noticed that none of them made mention of ... Christian doctrine...
...small tombs around her royal chamber lay skeletons of her servants, killed at her death to attend her on the journey. Each had the special tools of his trade so he could serve his mistress. Beside a sacrificed painter lay his paint pots. A boat-builder's skilled spirit hands would provide for the Queen's transportation on the Nile of the other world...