Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haphazard group of instrumentalists it is no doubt they were, with two clarinetists and one clarinet, a cornet, a trombone, a piano man and a suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence...
Partially in the spirit of good-will, and partly under the pressure of national publicity, twelve white men defied their narrow social heritage in returning a verdict of not guilty. This, though a great move in the reconstruction of the South by southerners, is not the millenium. To match this case are hundreds of instances which appear, if at all, in fine print on the bottom of the back pages of your daily newspaper...
...bombed rubble, but last week Müncheners eagerly jumped aboard bicycles, cars and trains bound to suburban Riems. Reason: horse racing was back. The scene at the track was almost like old days. The horses' names had been changed to others more in keeping with the spirit of the times: Bombe (Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become Olymp, but Munich's bettors, who poured more than a million marks a day into the tote windows, could still catch a glimpse of the Bavarian aristocracy strolling in the paddock, dressed...
...have never regarded myself as an enemy of Communists. Rather, I have sympathy and profound admiration for your spirit against the Japanese. I beg you to give up your belief in force, change your policy, partake in the government. . .help nationalize our armies and realize constitutional China . . . put an end to chaos. Once you join the government, if you wish General Ho Lung [veteran Communist commander] or anyone else to assume my command, I would welcome and assist him. With your assent I myself would serve under him obediently and loyally. A peaceful, united and democratic China is not only...
...People come to hear me because they are hungry for a religion that makes sense, that does no violence to the spirit. I say as simply as I can what I have to say, and that is why people listen. . . . I call for courage rather than give a promise of solace...