Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores and credit food markets where for half again as much as the affluent pay, stale bread and rank hamburger are fobbed off on the poor. Poverty spells the death of hope, the decay of spirit and nerve, of ambition and will...
...hundreds of localities and in thousands of concerned hearts, bridge building between the races is under way. Often the instrument is one human spirit, galvanized by an intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that...
...first "Berkeley" was pretty much of a mess. It had existential significance as a prediction and a hope. In concrete terms, however, little was gained. It affected the spirit of the university, not the structure. After Columbia, it appears that the structure will change, because the university's balance of power has been redistributed. Where Berkeley was merely articulate, Columbia is also strong...
...into, the dispute, thought it had found a reasonable solution. It urged uniform punishment for all offenders, under rules to be drawn up by a panel of students, faculty and administrators, and called on the trustees to provide an alternative gymnasium plan. Kirk said he agreed with "the essential spirit" of the proposals, would appoint such a tripartite committee-but did not agree to be bound by its decisions. "He's taking the posture of a neutral party," protested one of the faculty leaders. After the demonstrators also rejected the plan, the Columbia Spectator observed that the battle...
Harvard has concentrated on its "extra man" plays and defensive drills in practice this week, and spirit is high. In what will be a game so even that Munro thinks "only the team that wants it the most will win," the Crimson should show the greatest desire...