Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British spirit could slough into disastrous quiescence and defeatism. Britain cannot work out of its sore trouble unless the people give up much of the little they now have, but they have great capacity to do without...
...when large quorums turned out at the nominating meetings. Both the subsequent discussions of problems facing the Council and the political campaigning that preceded the elections point to the fact that the majority of the student body has offered more than lip-service to the realization of the underlying spirit of the Constitution. Other unthinking critics have expressed fear of this sudden increase in political action, apparently unmindful that such naturally stimulated interest is a sign of health rather than discase in the body politic. The whole question of how much political activity is desirable in an election necessarily involves...
...Sunday night, all kinds of edibles flew through the air with the greatest of case from one room to the next. A poem commemorated the event, which brought aging John Adams to propose the revival of the practise of flogging students and a few meaty lines should convey the spirit of the evening...
...leading spirit of Sinking-in-the-Ooze is the Heart Throb himself, a small-voiced, nervous bloke with a laugh as scratchy and uncertain as a wrong key at a lock. Barker's scenes with his designing secretary (played by his wife, Pearl) often carry off the show. "There," says Pearl, "two eyes looking at you so tenderly, two soft arms offering you something you can't possibly resist." Barker: "Camembert!" Pearl: "No, Love!" Barker (with a quivery laugh): "Steady, Barker...
...polite tones seldom used across the industrial bargaining table, the delegates aired views ranging from moderate left to far right. But a cooperative spirit prevailed. (The hotel shortage forced a New Haven publisher and a Michigan CVLO official to share a single room...