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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that are, despite the feelings of their respectable sponsors, nothing more than uptown Ku Klux Klans, using instead of tar and feathers and the lash the equally destructive economic pressure. They say they are dedicated to the idea of defeating desegregation "by means short of violence." But already the spirit of violence has manifested itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A SOUTHERNER FACES FACTS | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...SPIRIT OF SECESSION

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A SOUTHERNER FACES FACTS | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Responding to the threat of merger, alumni pledged over $200,000 in six months to bolster the Institute's resources. M.I.T.'s fighting spirit was obvious when "Tech Night" at the Pops opened with an improvised song to the tune of John Brown's Body, which asserted that "you can't make crimson out of cardinal and gray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Cooperation Replaces Early Hostility to Harvard | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

...years since, all ideas of merger have been dropped, and replaced by an increasing spirit of cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Cooperation Replaces Early Hostility to Harvard | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

Boston College, trailing 47-37 at the intermission, made several attempts to come back, but Bob Hastings, the Crimson's high scorer with 24 points, broke the Eagles' spirit by scoring on three fast breaks following interceptions...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Varsity Five Trounces B.C., 93-74, To Snap Eight-Game Losing String | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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