Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave service too. In the dreary Depression days of strikes and lockouts, Hoffa's springy figure and his vibrant personality (expressed with a wealth of the four-letter words) became a familiar sight. His commodity was spirit. He found men to form picket lines, sometimes scraped up money to pay for their bread. He toured meetings of locals like an itinerant troubleshooter ("I know how to coordinate all the locals, how to use them to give full strength wherever we need it"), wore out his share of shoe leather on countless picket lines ("I was picked...
...Hungarian tragedy-so heart-sickening and nerve-rending, particularly for old Communists," had destroyed "the last hope, the last illusion. While we believed we were fighting for freedom and right and against fascist barbarism, fascism and barbarism have risen again behind us, in word and deed and spirit...
...incalculable hidden influence may have been great. The overall effect of the crusade, says the Rev. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the New York Protestant Council, has been "magnificent"-"Billy and his team have done a tremendous amount for New York. Everywhere there is a quickening of the spirit-in the churches and out of them. And I know the long-range results will surprise a lot of people who were skeptical 16 weeks...
...protected by a roughly lettered sign: "Chatham murals. Free. No Children. No canes. No smoking." On the table inside is Stallknecht's own handwritten and framed description of her work: "This is Chatham-portraits of its people-democracy. A cross-section of the United States, with Christ, the spirit of God, predominating. He is the Christ of now-ever present in true democracy-the good in man. His likeness is a composite from the oldest Byzantine mosaics and the men of Chatham...
...drive the evil away. The first delegation of bomohs failed miserably: after the girls returned from their Hari Raya Haji holiday (20 days before the Moslem New Year), they went on a rampage again. Another six bomohs came, but after prayers, incantations and trances, announced that the evil spirit was much greater than they. One bomoh decided that the spirit must lodge in a certain rubber tree, ordered the tree cut down. Five days later, the hysterics broke out once more. Obviously, decided the other bomohs, the tree spirit had been made even angrier when it lost its home...