Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always Available. For a young Republican Congressman in a hurry, the New Deal days were pretty good ones. The Republican ranks were pitifully thin. The party was about as low in spirit as it could get. A newcomer with energy and ability was bound to attract notice -and Halleck had both energy and ability. "I immediately got active on the floor," he recalls, "and whatever assignment I got, I immediately went to work on it. And I hunted around for places to do things." Before long he had earned the nickname "Available Charlie.'' He was clearly a comer...
...gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from his more direct agricultural interests that Ray Garvey and his big family (four children, 18 grandchildren) annually reap enough of the golden crop to stagger the imagination-and he does it without bending either the letter or the spirit of the nation's farm support laws...
Onward, Christian Soldiers. "What we need to do," said John Foster Dulles long ago, "is to recapture to some extent the kind of crusading spirit of the early days when the missionaries, the doctors, the educators and the merchants carried the knowledge of the great American experiment to all four corners of the globe...
...wrongdoers" inclined to "fascism." The army does not want to make a martyr of him. But for repeating his slogans in villages two of his young partisans have been charged with sedition. When another U Nu supporter was arrested, 500 of his party members, loyal to the new spirit of jolly nonviolence, embarrassed the cops by banging on cymbals, playing flutes, and beating drums in a shrill crescendo of musical disapproval...
...though, for in a minute Miss Schroeder went away as she had come. Lucius, in a moment of unrestrained spirit, coughed deeply and tore his best yellow page marker into little pieces...