Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential inauguration in 1789. There was to be a sort of floating celebration, with swinging parties in all five boroughs and a glittering inaugural ball in Manhattan. Mike Quill's strike fixed all that-everything was canceled except the ball-but it could not subdue the high spirit and fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom at the Americana Hotel, only floors away from strike negotiation headquarters, the mayor and his wife Mary acted as if they had not a care in the world, danced across the bandstand to the tune...
...Ecumenical Council ended in Rome last month, the Polish delegation headed by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, acting in the truest spirit of Christian reconciliation, invited East and West Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the ceremonies in Czestochowa next May marking the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I. Wrote the Polish churchmen: "We grant forgiveness and ask forgiveness. Let us forget. No polemics. No more cold...
...Most Valuable Player award. When the final gun sounded, it was Hornung and Taylor who hoisted Coach Lombardi to their shoulders, and paraded him off the field. The future might belong to Bonus Babies Grabowski and Anderson. "But I guess," sighed Lombardi, "that there's a little spirit left in those old fellows...
...hardly handled like the R.A.F. Spitfire he'd flown in World War II, but Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith was willing to give it a go-around anyway-"to epitomize the spirit of the moment." Back and forth along a Salisbury thoroughfare he pedaled and puffed on his new bicycle. Then, with a wrenching left turn that resembled a sideways Immelmann, he braked to a halt. "My cook-boy has a better bike than this," guffawed Ian. "Good old Smithy!" laughed the office workers who were watching...
...raised campus not only accentuates the view of a great city: it also impressively dramatizes the immense stretch of the Midwestern prairies by capitalizing on Frank Lloyd Wright's perception that the best architectural way to capture their spirit would be in strong horizontals. The space beneath the granite and concrete court and under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There...