Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewer is hardly aware they exist. Sifting through more than 3000 stills, he has found a handful of early shots that reveal all the sadness, isolation, and boredom of Eleanor's childhood in Mrs. Astor's New York. The film clips of the later years are edited with such spirit and precision that the viewer rarely wonders how FDR and the War are doing: the energetic First Lady more than fills the time and screen...
...junior theses--bear directly on the educational policy of the entire college. If the curious parochialism of the "baronial" system prevents them from spreading spontaneously through all the departments, the Faculty as a whole should step in and recognize the ideas for what they are--natural consequences of the spirit and decisions of the recent debates on General Education...
...suggesting that we lightly cast aside our cherished Southern traditions," Valentine likes to say. "I am suggesting that we throw them aside with great vigor wherever they violate the spirit of the Bible." His objections to segregation are firmly religious. "We need to abolish racial discrimination in our country and our churches not because of a clause in the Constitution or because of the Communist challenge, nor yet because we need the votes of the watching world. We need to conquer race prejudice because it is a sin against almighty God and a rejection of the precious blood of Jesus...
...Craig Breedlove, 28: another world land speed record (his second in three weeks), becoming the first man ever to drive a car at 600 m.p.h. when he averaged 600.6 m.p.h. for two runs through the measured mile in his jet-powered streamliner Spirit of America; at Bonneville, Utah...
...Bixby, 75, aviation pioneer and vice president of Pan American World Airways from 1938 to 1949, who as president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce in 1927 was a key backer of Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight and named Lindy's single-engined monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Captiva Island...