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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coach would be charged with returning Harvard to the elite ranks of college hockey, but also to maintain the spirit and professionalism Tomassoni always conducted himself...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After 17 Seasons, Tomassoni Resigns | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...strategy behind this extension of the NATO air war against Slobodan Milosevic has a devilish design: to break the spirit of the Serbian people by depriving them of modern conveniences. When military planners refer to "bombing them back to the Stone Age," this is what they have in mind: everything from bridges to television stations has become a target. Many Serbs are now living by candlelight, eating food that doesn't require refrigeration and sleeping--if they can sleep at all--with the uneasy knowledge that 0.07% of NATO's bombs do go astray. Not surprisingly, as the allied target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: Hits And Misses | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Jackson is a great American," he said, "He is imbued with the spirit for public service that the Kennedy School represents...

Author: By Jared S. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jackson to Speak at Kennedy School Class Day | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...more than simply rooted in those places: it is Proulx's firm belief, a belief that sometimes seems to verge on determinism, that geography inexorably shapes human behavior. She now lives in Wyoming, and Close Range is a collection which grows out of what Proulx understands as the essential spirit of Wyoming: almost no story in this collection goes by without murder or sudden violence, without rape or incest or (nearly always) adultery, Without man or woman being broken by the isolation and the struggle of survival. The most deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories...

Author: By Josh A. Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Proulx' Gruesome Wyoming | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...more than simply rooted in those places: it is Proulx's firm belief, a belief that sometimes seems to verge on determinism, that geography inexorably shapes human behavior. She now lives in Wyoming, and Close Range is a collection which grows out of what Proulx understands as the essential spirit of Wyoming: almost no story in this collection goes by without murder or sudden violence, without rape or incest or (nearly always) adultery, without man or woman being broken by the isolation and the struggle of survival. The most deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories...

Author: By Josh A. Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Proulx's Gruesome Wyoming | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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