Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, it will take spirit like Dyke Benjamin's and a superlative effort by the entire team to put the Crimson in a contending position today, and such a combination is not an impossible occurrence...
...World Bank President Eugene Black, who was most responsible for working out the Egyptian-British settlement in the first place (TIME, Jan. 19). Black agreed to return to Cairo to try "to remove the remaining points of conflict" without which Her Majesty's government-in the spirit of Palmerston, if not his manner-will not sign the agreement with Nasser...
...charged with a particularly unpleasant case of assault and battery. The story itself, as preserved by Charles Perrault, is a legend that elucidates one of life's darkest mysteries: how the human soul lies sunk in a deathlike trance until it is awakened by the heroic spirit. Yet as presented in this "herculean," $6,000,000 version, the myth is just crude continuity for a colossal comic strip, and the more boings and EEEEEEEKs the moviemaker can get into his story, the better he seems to like...
...generally unable to cope with the greatness so suddenly thrust upon him. In the process he becomes even more bedraggled and gormless than the natives, and makes it incredible that anyone, much less a bright scornful girl like Pegeen Mike, could call him a lad with "a mighty spirit in him and a gamey heart...
Miss Churchman described the new system as part of an attempt to "achieve more of a unified dormitory spirit, like that in the Harvard Houses, by encouraging girls to remain in their present dormitories...