Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a victory of more than arms alone. This is a victory of liberty over tyranny. . . . Back of it all were the will and spirit and determination of a free people-who know what freedom is. ... Liberty does not make all men perfect, nor all society secure. But it has provided more solid progress and happiness and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history. And this day has shown again that it provides the greatest strength and the greatest power which man has ever reached...
...Nippon Times editorialized that perhaps this was the beginning of a new period of peaceful enlightenment and democracy. But in the same issue it reported: "Thirty-two members, including one woman, of patriotic nationalistic organizations are so far known to have committed suicide in Tokyo in a true patriotic spirit, eager to apologize to the Throne for their inability...
...Netherlands Government's official information service described the scene: "He called for brushes, paints and canvas. -Working with the consummate skill of a master, a painting in the very spirit of the famous 17th-Century artist slowly began to materialize. There can be no doubt that this mad genius did paint the seven pictures attributed to Vermeer...
...Living Spirit. In other Latin American countries - Cuba, Chile, Colombia, and even Argentina - smaller colonies worked hard "keeping alive the spirit of Republican Spain." And in Russia thousands of Spanish children were housed and educated. Socialist-minded Diplomat de Palencia does not dwell on the political activities of the Republic's refugees, does her best to lay the bogey of Communism that has so damaged the Loyalist cause in America. But her book leaves no doubt that doctrinal disputes mean far less to her than does a united front to carry the smouldering torch of freedom back to Spain...
...years, then was banished to the minors when his '38 team began cracking in midseason. Rescued from Milwaukee last year, he had become philosophical enough to treat his adult hired-help like adults. He served beer in the dressing room after each game, and concentrated on getting team spirit. How well the spirit moves the Cubs is apparent in their record: they have won 42 of their last 54 games...