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Word: spiriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Team captain Keith Oberg, who played with ten stitches in his leg, said yesterday. "We combined the talent and the enthusiasm of the team to reach our potential. There was an unbelievably good spirit and that's why we won this year," he added...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: Harvard Ruggers Shut Out Yale In The Final Game Of An Undefeated Season | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...election on Cleveland's blacks; he persuaded Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes and former Mayor Carl Stokes to endorse him on TV. The strategy did not work: Kucinich lost to Republican George Voinovich, Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, who played down his party affiliation and promised "a new spirit of cooperation" among businessmen, labor, and civic and neighborhood groups. Voinovich carried ten of Cleveland's 13 black wards as well as most of the city's white districts. Said he: "Populism doesn't mean anything if you can't deliver services to the people. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Strong Currents of Change | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

That kind of incident points to a major headache that Goodpaster has been unable to solve: male cadets enforce an informal dating code even stricter than the official rules. Many seem to feel that the mere presence of women is an offense against the military's macho spirit; in addition, some cadets seem to be frustrated at not being able to get dates of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dating at West Point | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...similar spirit, male cadets have formulated an unwritten rule prohibiting serious dating by cadets in the same basic unit, the company, which numbers about 100. The cadets are taught that each company is supposed to function as a whole, just as it would under combat conditions. This was the rule that was violated by the female cadet who was forced to bite off a chicken's head. She and her boyfriend, the son and daughter of military officers, had dated as plebes, and when they wound up by chance in the same company at summer camp, they began going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dating at West Point | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...arrests and trials in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia have fostered a new spirit of unity among East bloc dissidents, who have launched a coordinated attempt to defend one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST BLOC: Your Cause Is Also Our Cause | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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