Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iowa to Christmas. Pearl Harbor found Jim Holloway 43 years old, a commander in charge of the gunnery section of the office of Chief of Naval Operations. He put in for sea duty soonest, was cited by the Navy Secretary for "aggressive fighting spirit" while commanding Destroyer Squadron Ten in the North Africa landings. He got the Legion of Merit for a brilliant training job commanding the Atlantic Fleet's Bermuda-based shakedown group for new destroyers and destroyer escorts. In late 1944 he pleaded against Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's ruling that he must stay...
...spirit of Ezra Benson is certainly in this chamber tonight," gloomed Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey one night last week, as the Senate steamed through its third day of debate on the Administration's 1958 farm bill. Humphrey, longtime big farm-subsidy spender, was dead right. Benson's aides were hard at work outside the chamber feeding statistics and arguments to their rapidly growing body of supporters. Later the same night the Benson-backed bill, a promising step toward whittling down surplus-producing farm price supports, passed the Senate by a towering majority -62 for, Humphrey...
...commander of the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. To Alabaman "Cat" Brown, bossing this 418,000-ton, 76-ship armada is "the best job in the whole Navy." An unruly plebe at Annapolis, he logged 300 demerits, squeezed out near the bottom of his class ('21). The exuberant Brown spirit chafed at a rash of peacetime desk jobs, boiled over in 1943. "I've got a carrier [the Kalinin Bay], and I'd like a job of work," he told Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Snapped Spruance: "You've got one." For two years the Kalinin Bay escort...
...with curves flowing gracefully into the hills above the Atlantic. But in translating Kubitschek's dream into Brasilia's buildings, Niemeyer, once an easygoing bohemian, turned into a single-minded driver. Says he: "Until Brasilia, I regarded architecture as an exercise to be practiced in a sporting spirit and nothing more. Now I live for Brasilia...
...failure of that fallible device leads to a nightmare of abortion in which Horner's doctor is revealed as the evil destroyer of life, spirit and flesh. Existentialism and pragmatism have had it at the hands of a calculating crank...