Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their common devotion to "the pleasures of the table" pervades Reardon's book--itself a satisfying read, and in its spirit an antidote to the taste-blind dining hall...
...campus-wide events," he said. "We have a different mandate than the house committees and a different source of funding. The houses are for house spirit, not for the campus as a whole...
...fundraisers, very successful ones," she said. "But since we don't have much house spirit, we can't charge house dues, so we still have a hard time paying for events
...appear to be ignoring the legal injunction and taking enforcement into their own hands. In the past two weeks special Prop 187 hot lines in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento have received thousands of calls from distraught victims reporting impromptu acts of discrimination that recalled the vigilante spirit of the old Wild West. Many of the callers were citizens or legal residents, wrongly suspected of being illegal. "No one has the word undocumented tattooed on their forehead," said Juanita Ontiveros of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. "So people are being harassed because of looks, language and mannerisms...
...ever mentioned in the series, from gagh ("serpent worms, a Klingon culinary delicacy") to Pollux V ("planet in the Beta Geminorum system that registered with no intelligent life-forms when the Enterprise investigated that area of space on Stardate 3468"). Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek's late creator and guiding spirit, once got a letter from a group of scientists who complained about a scene in which Captain Picard visited France and looked up at the night sky. By their calculations, they said, the stars could not have been in that position in France in the 24th century...