Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George's Episcopal Church on Manhattan's East Side, the Rev. Elmore M. McKee assailed the plan as "an example of organized paganism. . . . These men died not for things material but for indestructible values of the spirit. . . . We cannot afford to get bogged down by a misguided, obsolete and patriarchal patriotism which demands American soil for American bodies. Let the dead rather finish the work they...
...calendar of triumphs, defeats, and contortions of the human spirit during...
Swearing, swashbuckling, he drove his troops ruthlessly to victories in Africa, Sicily, France and Germany. Some of his men caught his spirit; some hated him. But nearly all admired his military achievements...
...Preparatory Commission decided to place UNO's capital in the U.S., the fight narrowed down to San Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...
...Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times my mind, my reason, is challenging my spirit, throwing down a gauntlet and daring my spirit to pick...