Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lengthy keynote speech he chided the U.S. for "trying to bury the Geneva spirit," and spoke of the need for "establishing firm, friendly relations between the two biggest powers in the world, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. We propose this with good intentions, without having a knife behind our backs...
Rescued from the unhallowed earth, the bodies were removed, placed in coffins and carried back to the family vault at Phu-cam, while 75.000 Vietnamese watched in awed silence. "His spirit infuses our people during this renaissance of independence," said Ngo Dinh Diem...
...Jewish people but cliques, groups that are inimical to Jesus . . . The Christian who associates his Jewish neighbors with those who plotted Christ's death is perpetuating an injustice never contemplated by the apostle. If a man reads John's account of the Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast and say: 'It is I who am the sinner...
Karl Marx, who in spirit presided over this period, is introduced in a characteristically oblique Powell way. He makes his appearance over a ouija board (planchette in Britain) at a seance conducted by Myra Erdleigh, a figure like T. S. Eliot's "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante," said to be "the wisest woman in Europe." She warns of the planchette: "The things it writes cause such a lot of bad feeling sometimes." The board says that "Karl is not pleased" and, ominously, "Force is the midwife."* Thus the bewhiskered ghost of Marx sets Jenkins' friends whirling about...
...that last period Captain and goalie Charlie Flynn made 12 of his 33 saves, several of them on shots from point-blank range. His fine performance was as important to the victory as the Crimson's three late goals, because it broke the Tiger spirit...