Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened, Khrushchev and his policies were in jeopardy. His denunciation of Stalin and his proclaimed "separate roads to socialism" had resulted in rebellion in Hungary, defiance in Poland and denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...
...years, he organized his Barbados Labor Party and Workers' Union, in 1948, after suffrage had been broadened, took over the legislature (the party now holds 15 of 24 seats). In 1954 he got the title of Prime Minister, and last year he was knighted. He boasts that "the spirit of feudalism that ruled Barbados is as dead as Queen Anne." But with 230,000 people jammed onto an island 14 by 21 miles in size, Barbados is still among the poorer areas of the West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins...
...finally found her stimulus in Theosophy. In the cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
...calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during...
...Cooperation, not competition, is the spirit of group dynamics. The only way a person can 'cheat' in a group dynamics situation is to fail to cooperate." ¶ "As the group develops a strong 'we feeling' and gains experience in the group process, the teacher moves more and more out of the function as a leader. The ultimate is when the teacher is no longer the leader...