Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thorough system of determining actual land values and building expenses, and begin to collect interest as soon as ground is broken for a project. The subcommittee should not miss the chance to force these reforms upon the FHA. Nor should the Senators neglect to hold the agency to the spirit of the law by financing only low-rent housing that can have a legitimate effect on urban slums...
...with more faith in his own longevity then the Western press had, still felt his vision of a happy, communist future for the Chinese peasant would fail unless Chinese youth received a new injection of revolutionary spirit and unless a few over-tired and over-ambitious people in the Party were weeded out quickly...
Stolen Eggs. The dragon, who lives in the Mekong River in front of the Lan Xang Hotel in Vientiane, is a powerful force to the spirit-worshiping Laotians. He is also angry. His daughter laid three eggs this summer; they were stolen, and the dragon wants them back...
...Spirit of the Times. Anxious to sue under New Hampshire law, Mrs. Clark's lawyer requested a pretrial look at the "place of injury" doctrine. As a result, New Hampshire's approach to choice of law has been drastically revised. From now on, said State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank R. Kenison, New Hampshire will defer to whichever state offers "the sounder rule...
Though still on the books, guest statutes "contradict the spirit of the times." In Clark v. Clark, at least, New Hampshire holds that a driver's liability to his passengers shall be "determined by the local law of their common domicile, if at least this is the state from which they departed on their trip and that to which they intended to return." Which means that Mrs. Clark may now sue Mr. Clark under New Hampshire...