Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME correspondent asked a Greek lieutenant, who had fought with exceptional bravery against the Italians and Germans, what had happened to the spirit of seven years ago. The lieutenant shrugged: "This war in Greece is a battle between the United States and Russia. It happens that it's being fought here. That is our bad luck. But you can't expect us to fight your battle singlehanded-at least not with the old spirit...
...charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...
Last night Houghteling said that "a groundswell of genuine popular demand" could definitely induce Eisenhower to run in the spirit of service to country...
...made a gift of a building to the New Haven educational institution which was to bear his name. He died three years later--but his spirit still lives on today in the school that is his namesake, in Cole Porter sougs, in Nadherny, Jackson, Furse, and Fuche, and in the plaque that commemorates his birthplace in the shadow of the shadow of the Scollay Square subway block...
...Christian churches is attempting to return again to the usage of the early centuries, to bring the laity still more intimately into the performance of the Holy Communion. The effects of this movement are hardly beginning to be felt. But many see a new awakening of the Spirit in this turning toward a time when Christianity was a single community of the daring-when there were no "Protestants," "Romans" or "Orthodox," but only Christians...