Word: spiritedness
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I don't mean to suggest here that George W. Bush isn't a good dad. In fact, from the look of things, his spirited daughters have inherited the best of their mother's congeniality and their dad's easy-going sense of humor. But when it comes to the...
Growing up in pigskin-obsessed Winchester, Ohio, Sean Tracy relished playing high school football on Friday nights before capacity crowds of spirited fans. A three-year starter, he excelled on offense, defense and special teams.
The U.S. has long tried to keep Taiwan from developing offensive missiles, going so far as to pressure Taiwan to shut down such a program in the early 1980s. And Taiwan is in the middle of a spirited national debate on an $18 billion proposed purchase of largely defensive hardware...
“Yale-Harvard games, at any time, are spirited affairs,” Tompkins said. “That’s what we live for—the rivalry and the competition.”
But Bush could issue an executive order requiring any government employees—from White House “Senior Adviser” Karl Rove on down—to resign their public offices if an independent panel on presidential ethics judges their role to be more partisan than public...