Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicated newspaper column Spires of the Spirit, Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, un-petaled himself about flowers and funerals. " 'Please Omit Flowers,' " he wrote, "is a request often issued when arrangements are announced for what is usually called a funeral service . . . Whence comes this incongruous suggestion? Omit flowers-in the Valley of Shadow, when every yearning impulse is struggling vainly to express feelings that are too deep for words! . . . In 'Say it with Flowers' there stretch enchanting vistas of sacramental beauty like the glory of a garden or the shimmer of moonlight...
...years. I said to Bobby Sarnoff, the president of NBC, I says 'Bobby, you knew from the beginning I didn't want to go back to small time. I never asked to do this show.''' In the true show-must-go-on spirit, ex-Hoofer Winchell went on as scheduled -if a touch subdued-next night, contributed to the merriment by goofing across the scene in an oversized fedora presented to him by a pair of guest stars...
...story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, treated as "a detective story"; and The Unchained Goddess, on weather and meteorology. Like Sun, each will bear the endorsement of the nation's most eminent scientists, be released at three-month intervals. The human spirit, Capra explains, has three main outlets: the artistic, religious and scientific. "They are all after the same truth. The artistic tries to find it in laws of harmony, the religious in moral laws, the scientific in physical laws. But science has never been given the right shake in the grand scheme...
...airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis is not recognized." When a man wears his country's colors in competition, beating an opponent takes on added meaning; individual competitors, intent on winning an individual championship, may be too busy to keep score, but someone with team spirit is always around to do it for them...
...weight men are called "whales," and in this Olympic year, Parry O'Brien is the great white whale of the U.S. team-a Moby Dick whom the Russians and the rest of the athletic world would rejoice to master. In competitive terms, he is the epitome of the spirit of single-minded pursuit of perfection idealized in the Olympic creed, a loner who has consecrated his life to the task of tossing a 16-lb. ball of steel farther than anyone-including Parry O'Brien -has tossed it before. He searches for tricks that help him "dig deep...