Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inherited this situation when he was elevated to his post from the vice-presidency by the sudden death of President Oscar Gestido. A former newspaper editor who relaxes by dropping in on his favorite gym to box, Pacheco opened his campaign for national discipline in a gloves-off spirit. He fired six members of his own Colorado Par ty from their ministerial jobs. Since then, he has replaced all but one man in the twelve-member Cabinet with "good technicians." To halt inflation, which had boosted prices 200% in 18 months and forced five devaluations of the peso, he decreed...
...another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S. O'Callahan was commissioned at Boston Navy Yard. Donning a sailor's white hat, Richard Cardinal Cushing presided, observing that war "can make men into brutes. But out of it can also come achievements that expand the human spirit and remain an inspiration for all future time...
...official government euphemism was that programming was to be kept "light" to "put the French in a vacation spirit." The fact, however, was that 114 newsmen and producers of the O.R.T.F. (Office de Radio et Télévision Français) were on a paid holiday until September pending what Couve called "a profound reorganization." Their wages had been raised 13%, but the TV strike issue had been government censorship, not money. That complaint was still unresolved...
Remember last summer? Remember "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? If you don't you should, because what else was there all winter but that record to drown out the snowstorms and the academic storms and the political storms outside? One wandering spirit, dreaming of sunlit beaches, spent all of the winter reading period attempting to crack the Beatles code. The startling message he discovered in the album buried in the lyrics, the recording and the record jacket, we now present for your amazed perusal...
...such honest mutual recognition that the kind of political and social activity that the diggers would like to see begins. Because it is not till everyone is converted to the creed and everyone gripped by the same spirit of selflessness that institutions like the free stores and free living can flourish. Without trust nothing survives--without the trust of all nothing endures...