Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pray for the spirit to cope with a world...
...answer is not "to smash them or to call for more law and more order, but to inject all our institutions with a new spirit, ready to serve a progressive will. You cannot have progress without some order-but you cannot have order without making it progressive...
...Wilburn Camrock Campbell, D.H.L., Episcopal Bishop of W. Va. Should matters of the spirit ever require more temporal power, it is reassuring to know that your ecclesiastical authority may be supplemented by your experience as a welterweight boxing champion...
...great ambition was to help unite the Christian denominations, and he worked tirelessly for the World Council of Churches, which he felt exists "to keep the means of communication open." Luther, he always felt, would have agreed with him. "The spirit of the ecumenical movement," Fry once aid, "is the spirit of Luther to the extent that it is a movement back toward the center of the Christian faith...
Though the Dunfeys often operate under franchises, President John Dunfey says that the family's chief asset is its effort "to keep the personal involvement in the business that we had when we had just a hot-dog stand." To keep up "the spirit and warmth of the old Yankee taverns," the Dunfey inns lure travelers with such country titles as "Cracker Barrel Lounge...