Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisscrossed the erstwhile White Man's Grave, dropping in on the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, the Congo, Zambia and Ethiopa-with Somalia, Kenya and Tunisia also on the itinerary-not even the fabled spirit of WAWA could put Humphrey down. WAWA, short for West Africa Wins Again, is invoked by exasperated voyagers as the malefic author of all sub-Saharan hang-ups, and it struck frequently. Hubert smilingly brushed it aside...
...British political parties endorsed the girls' move. Britain's new poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (see following story) wrote a tribute. BBC-TV featured the girls on its major news program, and two London ad agencies bought full pages in the Times of London to hail their spirit. London's Financial Times praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning out 100,000 "I'm Backing Britain" badges. More astonishing, the 740 other employees at the girls' company, which produces ventilation equipment, agreed...
...Committee for an Effective Congress declared last week, with no exaggeration intended, "America has experienced two great internal crises in her history: the Civil War and the economic Depression of the 1930s. The country may now be on the brink of a third trauma, a depression of the national spirit...
Bobby & the Blaze. The Bruins are the same team of creaking veterans and callow kids whom experts condemned to the East Division cellar before the season started. What they've got now is ebullience. "The spirit of this club is unbelievable," says Center Phil Esposito, 25, a castoff from the Black Hawks who got his revenge by scoring three goals against his former teammates last week. "We've really caught fire," says Left Wing Johnny Bucyk, 32, a twelve-year veteran who is well on his way to his finest season -with 19 goals and 18 assists...
...appearance or admission of genuine permanence. The camp, which held only a few hundred people in 1947, now has 16,563. Unlike the first days, the people of Ein el Hilweh now see scant hope of ever returning to their homes, but they continue to live in the spirit of cruel dispossession. The roads and fetid alleys are still either choked with dust or, during the winter rains, awash in light brown mud. A few shops provide essential services-shoe repair, clothing-and the U.N.'s daily ration (1,600 calories in winter) can be supplemented at ramshackle fruit...