Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Franco was neither one of the original conspirators in the civil war, nor the first choice of its instigators as its military leader. In 1936, as soon as the Madrid Government announced that national elections had returned a thumping Leftist majority, plans for the rebellion were laid. Guiding spirit was the devious Catholic politician Jose Maria Gil Robles, now Rightist representative to Portugal. Leader of the rebellion was to be General Jose Sanjurjo. Francisco Franco, whom the republican Government had rusticated on the Canary Islands, was expected to play a part, but a minor one. On the word...
...years ago Dick Harlow was called up from Western Maryland to take charge of Crimson football. He was met by a team demoralized by past seasons, timid of the coming season. Whatever spirit there was was dispelled when Bob Haley, the captain, was put off the team on technical charges of professionalism...
Listen. There is only one victory possible for a man-that of having lost with a certain dignity of heart, at least, and nobility of spirit. That is all, that is all, and it will always...
...cars over measured distances and noting their license plates, offered several explanations for these differences: either Connecticut people went slow because they knew they would get no preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers of any community . . . take the longest trips." The Bureau also found that cars in which the driver is alone travel faster than those with passengers...
Animating spirit of the group is the French novelist, Louis Scheurer. Essentially romantic, Louis came out of his War experiences too cynical to be interested in politics, although his views were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot...