Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. Next morning, his father's old worn Hussite Bible was found open by his bed. The upturned page was part of the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, and verses 22 and 23 of chapter 5 had been marked. They read: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." His body was found at 6:20 by a guard on the stone-flagged court 60 feet below his bathroom window...
Communist cunning decreed that the mu sic of Czechoslovakia be "cleansed" be cause it was in music that the Czech spirit of independence was most likely to break forth...
...Nanking, the government mourned. The "valiant action" at Ichuan would be "sung and wept over in history [as] ... a demonstration of the revolutionary spirit of sacrifice of the national troops. . . . Such spirit . . . will insure that Communist bandits will be exterminated...
Neither team can be blamed, for spirit must run high in the rubber game of a Harvard-Yale series. The blame lies squarely on the two referees, Moyland McDonell and Charles Crovat, and on their boss, Asa R. Bushnell of the Eastern Intercollegiate Association...
...Rhythm," Valpey kept saying, "you must have rhythm." Valpey preached rhythm and kept things businesslike. Observers compared yesterday's turnout and spirit to last year's spring practice and were grimed for the first time since last November...