Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's Premier. Last week he set out on a whirlwind tour of "Positive Asian Diplomacy," through Formosa, Burma, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Ceylon, in preparation for a visit to Washington. His purpose: to persuade his neighbors that the new Japan was anxious to cooperate "in a spirit of modesty to achieve mutual prosperity by combining American capital, Japanese technology and local resources...
...says: "It is not a new thing in our country, and it seems to be a Latin American evil, that military personalities seek to make themselves dictators through recourse to the arms that the people themselves pay for. We shall so conduct ourselves that the army, in a democratic spirit, as in such other countries as the U.S., England and France, may remain aloof from partisan political strife...
...moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come this week from the General Assembly, in the background there will be the rumble of dour dissent from clergy and churchgoers. Rumbled the Scottish Daily Express: "The spirit of Knox is not dead...
...freshman no longer reside together on the Old Campus, but be integrated into the colleges. This does not mean the abolition of Freshman Year as an academic unit... The intellectual and social benefits received by the freshmen would more than compensate for the loss of the traditional "class spirit" supposedly generated by living together on the Old Campus, but actually growing much later...
...week ago tonight four august figures--Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Foster Furcolo, and the spirit of Alben Barkley (represented by Mrs. Barkley)--gathered together, and held what might be called a minstrel show. Its purposes were twofold: to help pay Democratic campaign deficits and, in passing, to give Eisenhower a few licks. We don't really object to either of these enterprises, but we were a bit horrified at how the whole thing came off. None of the august personages (except perhaps Truman) seemed very easy about throwing bottles at the President-umpire. Perhaps it was merely that the Democrats...