Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as men saluted the greatest and most grimly Pyrrhic of victories in all the gratitude and good spirit they could muster, they recognized that the discovery which had done most to end the worst of wars might also, quite conceivably, end all wars?if only man could learn its control...
...fate has forever been shaped between the hands of reason and spirit, now in collaboration, again in conflict. Now reason and spirit meet on final ground. If either or anything is to survive, they must find a way to create an indissoluble partnership...
...This is the spirit of serving the nation with seven lives-that is, Kusunoki, Masashige's spirit, and the faith of Hojo Tokimune that life springs from nonexistence, indestructibility from destruction...
Nichols further ventured that Duren should paint in a spirit which regards manure not as horrible filth but as a farmer's God-given instrument. Countered Duren: "I refer to [manure] but seldom. ... I regard it as neither horrific nor as beautiful but merely as unimportant detail. Obviously Mr. Nichols finds it appealing...
Eslanda saw everything, from the local jail, which was "clean, pleasant and sanitary," to "lovable pygmies." At last a 120-year-old native, "her eyes glazed with a film of age," insisted that "my hair, eyes, nose, and 'especially my spirit' were pure African." But while Eslanda was trying to become primitive, all the natives she met were hoping to become civilized. They feared that it would take "1,000 years." Eslanda, getting in a bit of a plug for ideology, told them that the Soviet Union had civilized its primitives in a mere ten or 20 years...