Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill kept lashing out across the floor, heckling and interrupting while Bevin spoke. Cried Ernie finally: "Party spirit [has] gained the upper hand of national interest ... I have watched Mr. Churchill as a great patriot and half an hour afterward he is a party man. . . ." Snapped Churchill: "We all know that you are the only patriot in the land...
...extra-inning games. But the idea of labor unions in baseball was catching. It was no joke for the Pittsburgh Pirates; over 90% of them seemed dead set on wearing a union label. Last week, after ten days of hemming & hawing, Pirate President Bill Benswanger bowed to the spirit of the times, agreed to negotiate with the players' union...
...government went to war with the great country he knew so well, Princeton-educated Kagawa spoke out of the nationalist side of his mouth. In English-language broadcasts beamed at the U.S. he attacked American "savagery comparable to the lowest cannibalism," argued that if America had not lost the spirit of Washington and Lincoln her leaders would cease the cruel perfidy of the war against Japan. After the war he did not deny his words. The broadcasts had been made, explained Kagawa, to show both his government and his people that a Japanese Christian could also be a patriot...
...long summer nights." Said a Russian: "If more of them were out ploughing fields instead of reading, there would be more food." But most observers condemned the order as a piece of unenforceable foolishness which would only increase interest in the verboten books, and martyrize Germany's nationalistic spirit...
Where the Old Vic pre-eminently caught Shakespeare's spirit in Henry IV, in Uncle Vanya they only fitfully captured Chekhov's tone. The direction seemed fussy in some places, off-center in others; two or three roles were misplayed, and in the title role Ralph Richardson, though always a good actor, seemed miscast...