Word: spirited
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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...
...SPIRIT OF SECESSION
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...
...years since, all ideas of merger have been dropped, and replaced by an increasing spirit of cooperation...
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...