Word: spirit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...biggest challenge may be going national without losing the spirit of the small town that got the company started. The folks back in Popcorn are watching...
...weather put on quite a show: there was sunshine, dramatic cloudbursts and even a rainbow over the convention center as Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his speech. Yet something was missing: the chance to blow off steam by trading insults or even blows with colleagues. An unfamiliar spirit of universal amity took the edge off debates that in earlier years might have degenerated into cathartic screaming matches. Sheltering from a sudden downpour in the lee of a seafront pub, one Labour old-timer joked to another: "Now that's what I call rain - good and honest, just like Gordon...
...Celtics history and have no attachment to the team. I’ve never cursed Doc Rivers or Rick Pitino. I never even stepped foot inside the old Garden with its iconic wood floor design. I was a fraud.Still, though, I was as caught up in that eternal Celtics spirit as anybody else. We were all stuck outside in the longest line the new Garden has ever seen, buoyed by the possibility of MVP candidates and a playoff run.Never in my lifetime has a Celtics ticket given rise to such a response. The Big Ticket appears to have delivered...
...It’s Luxembourg. And it’s my motherland—in a non-Communist sort of way. Home to all of 480,222 people, this landlocked European wonder eludes the consciousness of the average American. So, in the great Harvardian spirit of enlightenment, here are 50 things you didn’t know about Luxembourg...
...keep the ball alive and pass for her teammates. “I am the lead defensive specialist and I pass first and foremost,” the sophomore said. “I want to be there for my teammates.” Kocurek’s team spirit shows both on the court and in her speech. “I want to win the Ivies,” she said of her goal this season. “We have such a great team and a lot of potential.” Individually, Kocurek would like...