Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undented Defense. Democrats Lausche and Cannon put little or no blame for the current surge of price-spiraling on Dwight Eisenhower & Co. In the same nonpartisan spirit, a congressional subcommittee chaired by Arkansas' Congressman Wilbur D. Mills unanimously concluded last week that the Administration had done right in backing up the Federal Reserve Board's inflation-fighting tight-money policy of bridling bank credit. Reported the committee, after interviewing three dozen experts: tight money pinches, but it restrains inflation-and inflation pinches harder and more unjustly...
...peasants could quite get used to their happy new condition, the Communist Party workers moved into Morawice, urged that they merge their holdings into Soviet-type collective farms. When the .peasants hesitated, the Communists turned the economic screws, demanded larger deliverfes of corn, milk and potatoes. More in the spirit of Poland's traditional agricultural "circles" than from socialist leanings, one group of 13 families pooled their 100 acres of land and formed a collective called Victoria...
...James E. Wagner, president of the Evangelical and Reformed Church: "In marriage or in merger, where two become one, the very generosities required from both become channels of grace; and they discover that as each must decrease for their union to increase, they both grow in spirit...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh; Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...
Director Preminger seems to approach Shaw's classic with a heavy Germanic reverence that sorts ill with the trustbusting, wit-snapping Shavian spirit. His scriptwriter, Novelist Graham Greene, has adapted Shaw's play to the screen almost word for word. The result is talk, talk, talk. And even when the talk is good Shawmanship, Preminger and his cast manage to make it bad acting. Indeed, the whole company plays with such clumsiness that the expert Sir John Gielgud, as Warwick, has to pick his way to histrionic success like a first-string halfback dodging through the scrub...