Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe this year will be different. If the coach and players have anything to do with it, those sophisticated Harvard sneers may turn into cheers. There's a new spirit among the players this year: there's determination, something not too unusual in winning teams but something that hasn't been seen for a while in the Harvard locker room. And the potential basketball heroes aren't wasting any time in proving their intentions...
...Athletic Building in an unprecedented effort to get ready for the regular season practice. These daily unofficial workouts, with Captain Bob Kanuth supervising, have aimed at preparing the team for the physical and mental discipline necessary to pull Harvard out of its basketball doldrums. "The workouts have developed a spirit and enthusiasm," Kanuth says, "which we feel this new situation warrants...
...whether to build the relocatable classrooms, or to adopt the supposedly less expensive course of scattering the Houghton children throughout other City schools for the next two years. Proponents of the relocatable classroom plan argued that it would keep the Houghton children together for the period, preserving the "unique spirit of the school...
...Communism have demythologized themselves eschatologically," the bishop said. "Christians no longer believe in a Second Coming, And the Communists have given up the theory that the victory of the proletariat is inevitable. The church is showing an interest in the material order of things, and Marxists now say the spirit is important...
...campus of the National Polytechnic Institute, and police lurk in the hills surrounding the sports sites. The students are still bitter over government suppression of their protests, a small war that has claimed some 100 lives in the past two months. Nevertheless, the students, too, have caught the Olympic spirit. Said one youth: "It may seem difficult to understand, but we're all for the Olympics. The games will go well...