Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integration: "We deplore as contrary to the spirit of the Gospel any effort to depreciate as inferior any nation or people, believing that all alike are precious in God's sight," said World President Reuben R. Figuhr. Later he cautioned against the dangers of moving too fast and trying "to force the issue...
...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
...this spirit last week Sir Hugh Foot set about introducing Britain's intricate new plan to give limited self-government to Cyprus (TIME, June 23). Tribulation was what he expected. After the previous week's bloodshed between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, the British had rushed additional troops to Cyprus, boosting the security force to 37,000 men for an area smaller than Los Angeles County. They postponed the scheduled public announcement of the plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey...
...side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better"), and in Williamsburg, Va.. true to the colonial spirit, he draped himself in a yard-square bib for a roaring good feast at the King's Arms Tavern...
Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...