Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With hopes for future cooperation in a more creative spirit, I am Merom Brachman...
These paintings are full of spirit and sensitive color. Some are highly decorative and some go beyond that. Some are derivative, but selectively and creatively so. All are tasteful and imaginative...
Dressy skirts are always popular for the holiday season. There are full skirts of permanently pleated white nylon with bands of black velvet. There are circular wool skirts with embroidered designs. But slim skirts too have taken on the festive spirit. One sees straight velvet skirts, slim tweed skirts bejewelled with a scattering of rhinestones, tweeds with a raised knitted design...
Maine's doughty Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 59, stickles without compromise about active-duty requirements for military promotion. Last August she successfully blocked the elevation of Cinemactor James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart to reserve brigadier general in the Air Force. Her contention: Stewart's glamour could not justify the advancement. With no hint that she would like someday to be a chicken colonel (Stewart's rank), Senator Smith, light colonel in the U.S.A.F. Reserve, last week got back into uniform, prepared for a month's study of guided missiles...
...eight months before Pastor Schmutzler was brought to trial, while the Reds evidently tried to break his spirit. Last week 150 hand-picked "workers" and "observers" were assembled in the Leipzig district court for a show trial. Western newsmen were barred, and even the Communist papers significantly omitted their usual lush descriptions of the defendant's cringing and pleading for clemency. Siegfried Schmutzler's sentence: five years at hard labor. Top churchmen throughout East and West Germany protested, but they knew that in a real sense the sentence represented a victory for unbreakable Pastor Schmutzler. Said Hamburg University...