Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little bit crazy. But I am quite sure that none of you will think I am not honest." The crowd applauded, and Ike went on to suggest how the nation might "find the right answers" to its problems great and small-by approaching them "as Americans and in the spirit of give-and-take...
Mohammed told Khadija, his wife, of his vision of God and asked, "Do you believe it was a good or an evil spirit that revealed itself to me?" Whereupon his practical wife put the matter to an infallible test. She invited Mohammed to sit upon her lap. And when he had sat down, she asked, "Do you still behold the vision?" And when he replied that he did she began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness...
...rather melodramatic story about a white police lieutenant's seduction of a native girl to explore the poisonous influence of racism on the "European" population of South Africa. Libott clearly tried to stick closely to the structure of the novel, but in doing so missed some of its spirit. Paton's book carried a strong aura of urgency, of events sweeping toward inexorable doom, but in the play the same events often seem merely episodic...
...March 1953, Republican National Chairman Charles Wesley Roberts resigned three hours after a Kansas state legislative committee found that he had violated the "spirit" of the Kansas lobbying law in 1951 by taking an $11,000 insurance company fee for his part in the sale of a hospital to the state...
...Truman's order, a wholesale Government cleanup was ordered. To undertake the job, Attorney General McGrath hired New York Lawyer Newbold Morris, an enthusiastic, if inept, reformer. Morris started off with a big bang-by investigating his immediate superior, J. Howard McGrath. This was more than flesh or spirit could bear: McGrath fired Morris-and Truman fired McGrath...