Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sackcloth Smocks. At Auschwitz, Anne's long hair was clipped and her eyes seemed to grow larger and larger as she grew thinner. Her gaiety disappeared but not her indomitable spirit. The women were divided into groups of five and, though the youngest of her group, Anne became its leader, partly because she was efficient at scrounging necessities. When during cold weather she and the others were reduced to sackcloth smocks, Anne found somewhere a supply of men's long underwear. She even magically produced a cup of coffee for an exhausted prisoner...
...many pigs and chickens as had been provided for the wedding feast. It was too much. Ha's father jumped into the Mekong, bent on self-destruction. But Co Ha's true love, watchfully waiting near by, dived into the river and saved him. Broken in spirit, Co Ha's father had to give his consent to the happy young couple...
...Some time ago," he said, "I had the strangest premonition, the strangest urges, and even against my will I was compelled to change my name ... I had a slight accident. I had concussion. And my body was actually taken over by the spirit of an Easterner...
...much of this to turn the hotel clerk into a genuine Hollywood cowboy, and as soon as he gets back to that Chicago hotel, he proceeds to demonstrate his he-manity. Superb in a steaming tub he sits, swigging his quart and sucking his Havana and languidly, when the spirit moves him, blasting away at the roaches on the walls with his trusty...
...that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England, she is the spirit of togetherness, a one-woman P.T.A. opposed to discrimination against Indians, be they Siwanoy, NarraganSett, or any other friendly neighborhood group...