Word: spirited
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...Team sports provides a constructive and regulated environment for man’s natural competitive spirit, cleansing what is barbaric in that impulse with intricate rules and attendant penalties all while ennobling the individual desire to succeed by directing it toward a larger, collective goal. Sportsmanship—which today is explained to youngsters as having grace in defeat—affects and develops one’s personal sense of honor: It is better to lose with dignity than to win at all costs...
...only when we find faith in something larger than ourselves. We’ve seen it in the Exodus of Jews from Egypt, in the flight of slaves from bondage, in the protests of workers and women, in Freedom Rides and peace marches. We felt it in the rebellious spirit of our founding mothers and fathers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, and in the heroic resilience of Stonewall’s children in the face of AIDS and Reagan and “family values.” Too many of us have gone, but many more...
...hard for you to understand the nostalgia many Americans feel for a reasonable return to the culture of small-town America-to its appreciation of education, traditional arts, the work ethic, hunting, community spirit and moderate churchgoing? Moderation and mutual cooperation within the international ?community are what we so desperately need in the U.S. That is the change that John McCain and Palin would bring. Jim Clemons, Fredericksburg, Virginia...
...hard to understand the nostalgia that many Americans feel for a reasonable return to the culture of small-town America--to its appreciation of education, traditional arts, the work ethic, hunting, community spirit and moderate churchgoing? Moderation and mutual cooperation within the international community are what we so desperately need in the U.S. That is the change that John McCain and Palin would bring. Jim Clemons, FREDERICKSBURG...
Regardless of political affiliation and partisan politics, Alaska Klub members said they believe the Palin pick will be good for Alaska. “I generally want to bring the spirit of Alaska to Cambridge, and I think this will help,” Treuer said. The Alaska Klub’s upcoming events include “Wasilla Drinks,” when the club will watch the vice-presidential debate between “our beloved Gov. Sarah Palin and that dirty Washington Insider Joe Biden,” as advertised on the club’s Facebook...