Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Socialist Clement Attlee broke the precedent. Announcing to the House of Commons that Britain's World War II commanders would get no money rewards, he said: "It would not be in the spirit of the times...
...best possible equipment helps pre serve that nest egg. The Cadet Corps's intense "school spirit" provides both winning inspiration and a constant brake against inflated egos. Keeping the team razor-sharp despite the heavy curricular chores is the nut that has to be cracked...
...blow that cracked the Methodist chaplain's neck did not break his Christian spirit. One morning, he recalled, "the sky was particularly brilliant" and it seemed that "all of the earth was worshiping God. . . . Although the Japs were not like humans, they might still become human. I decided that God was able to create a human, so He must be able to make of that human what He wants...
...Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings; TIME...
This revolution is organically tied up with the Russian Revolution. Few readers may agree with Author Scott that the Bolsheviks "preached a doctrine in some ways reminiscent of the gospel of Jesus, a doctrine in the spirit of the Declaration of the Rights of Man." But few will disagree that the Russian Revolution "inaugurated the era of collectivism, the most frightening, powerful and misunderstood phenomenon of the 20th Century." Author Scott believes that socialism is inevitable (" . . . if the Soviet Union, by some miracle, were to fall tomorrow into the Arctic Sea, the collectivist revolution . . . would not stop"), and that capitalism...