Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Italian-American relations solid and satisfactory, Premier Segni actually had no great and pressing problems to hash over with President Eisenhower (the talks, said the communique, were held "in a spirit of close friendship"); he got a chance before the National Press Club to express his hope that Italy would play a role in a future summit meeting, and to warn the U.S. against reckless disarmament merely because of Khrushchev's "handshake and a few smiles...
...Negro influx, a consequent white flight to the suburbs. With the newcomers forced into black-belt housing, de facto segregation prevails in urban public schools throughout the North. So goes the pattern in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia-a steady proliferation of conditions contrary to the spirit of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
...viewed in contrast to the hopes, aspirations, and fears of last fall and early winter. Shortness of of memory is an assiduously cultivated habit among embarrassed politicians and one that in general comes easily to voters (but not often enough, many defeated incumbents will tell you) so the exaggerated spirit of last fall already sounds clearly inconceivable. It was, however, heady enough to provoke Senator Lyndon Johnson into delivering what was referred to as a second State of the Union message; one which many thought more authoritative than the first...
...expand and take on bigger things is the Blue Cross. With rising hospital costs and a corresponding need to raise premiums sicklying o'er the healthy hue of resolution, most Blue Cross plans have responded to inflation by restricting benefits rather than extending them. And this loss of "pioneering spirit" has become a matter of concern to prominent Blue Cross and voluntary hospital officials...
...modern medicine will bring back a normal life and freedom from the threat of relapse. Many of the patients are graduates of other sanatoria, and their hopes are tempered by former failures. To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit...