Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought up." he says, "to rejoice in God and life and to have a gay and festive spirit." He does not understand his more somber-minded colleagues and their preoccupation with the tragic and grotesque. "We are alive." he insists. "Why act as if we were dead...
...Comptroller-General Joseph Campbell, Congress' fiscal watchdog, declared that Summerfield's Post Office Department had violated the spirit of the law. The law: spending must be apportioned over the full year in such a way that neither large-scale supplemental appropriations nor curtailment of services is necessary...
...Budapest's gloomy municipal court with ten other Freedom Fighters chosen from the thousands in Kadar's jails. They were picked for trial, the middle-aged woman judge indicated, because they were "intellectuals, students and ne'er-do-wells" who had acted "merely out of a spirit of adventure or because of lack of information." If by this choice Kadar had hoped to discredit the Freedom Fighters as a whole, he had miscalculated: Medical Student Toth's case for freedom was as powerful as it was poignant...
...modern secular spirit of the West makes it certain [the Buddhist missionaries] will meet with considerable success . . . There is a very deep interest in Buddhism growing among students in [Western] schools and universities...
...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...