Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more aware of this than the Arabs in Israel and the surrounding countries. Yet only when these Arabs adopt such a spirit, can peace come to our region. Then the Palestinian refugees will say aloud what they feel in their hearts...
...recent blizzard had left ardent suitors trapped in several feet of snow. Worse, merchants estimated that they would lose $10 million worth of sales of candy, flowers and greeting cards. So Dukakis extended the Tuesday holiday to Friday, for "spiritual as well as economic reasons." To fulfill the spirit of the thing, he sent Valentine messages to his wife Kitty all week long...
...Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, the three Bs were Bach, booze and broads. He was as prodigious in his appetite as le was generous in spirit. But it is, of course, as a master pianist and composer in the classic tradition of U.S. jazz that Fats has proved larger than death...
...stern Foster in steel-rimmed glasses, cocking his chin against the Communist threat; Allen, urbane but swallowed by the anonymity of his institution; and Eleanor, out of sight altogether. Biographer Leonard Mosley shows them to be a brood who, for all their Republican orthodoxy, were capable of great spirit and flashes of color...
...expecting anything other than what you got the year before, in a snazzy, schmaltzy new package; that a lot of people around here like to go the show every year for the same reason they like to sit through the Harvard-Yale game every year ("School Spirit," "Tradition," "Water on the Brain"); that, my dream notwithstanding, there are always more puns where that came from; that the audience is usually probably slosho enough to giggle its way through the Apocalypse (believe it or not, this actually happens, this year, in Act I, Scene Seven--count 'em--Seven); and that...