Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked like Christmas. Mail piled up; huge wreaths splashed greenery from the windows; the great rooms sparkled with holly, poinsettia and mistletoe. On the south lawn, the towering national Christmas tree winked merrily to passersby. But for all its holly, the White House was not filled with the Christmas spirit...
...cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...vote-they amended Article 27 of the constitution draft, to give the future Assembly (and therefore the Kuomintang) almost absolute powers. Young China delegates and Democratic Socialists talked darkly of Kuomintang dictatorship, threatened to walk out of the Assembly. Cried the newspaper Ta Kung Pao: "The fundamental spirit of the constitution is shaking...
Spiritual life is intricate too, for the world is alive with gods and demons, ghosts and evil spirits. They bring disease and famine and floods. Senior spirit of the Botocudos is Maretkhmaknian, who has white hair, a red beard, and kills women by raping them. Sometimes the souls of the dead (a person may have six) turn into man-eating jaguars...
...Small Town he talks about a place called Roxborough ("I have employed only the flimsiest of disguises"). Like a surgeon-sociologist, Author Hicks takes Roxborough apart, examining its community workings and its problems. He reviews its history (dull), its people (average), its public spirit (strictly limited), its politics (strictly Republican...