Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine speaks, generally, the optimistic philosophy of life characteristic of so many Americans; the more intense tempo of living, the spirit of adventure, and the energy of the average American. 'America is a democratic country; it is governed by the people, by ordinary people like you and me,' it seems to say on every page . . . But this democracy can only stand fast by the grace of freedom, the safeguard for world peace. Therefore, TIME continually illuminates (as does the majority of the outstanding American press) the inroads being made by Communism on this human right. TIME...
...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
...firmer grip on fourth place. Not since 1934 had they stood so high so late in the season. Said their old Manager Mack, who is 84 now: "I've been in baseball a long time,* but I've never seen a team like this one for spirit and determination...
They rocked, swayed and whirled in unison, sometimes stopping to let anyone especially moved by the spirit perform solo. Frequently the spirit would work mightily in their midst to produce wild outcries and contortions, "speaking with tongues" or convulsive "jerks" and "barks." "For a while the world's people were admitted to these dances. But when the crowds grew too big, the Shaker elders barred the public...
...letter to the New York Herald Tribune, a reader suggested a prayer for landlords, taken from the Book of Common Prayer of England's Edward VI, who died in 1553: "We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds and pastures of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof...