Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the one-sidedness of the final results, both teams have maintained their respective esprit de corps through the years, and for the visiting squad the match is nothing short of a golfing crusade. At the same time the Walker Cup Match has been essential in fostering the spirit of comraderie that exists between golfers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...CONDUCTOR who preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...
...Washington passed through one of those implausible hours that are both its curse and its exhilaration. In the White House the leaders of Latin America and the U.S. dined on lobster and roast veal and hoisted scores of glasses of Blanc de Blancs champagne in warm tribute to the spirit of the new Panama Canal treaty signed earlier...
...opening second movement theme, a sound- alike for the late 1940s popular song Nature Boy. The quintet is often said to reflect the composer's sunny, lyric disposition, and even the swift changes in tempo and sudden clouds of melancholy cannot dampen the work's high spirits. Both the Juilliard with Firkusny and the Cleveland with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit. The older Juilliard brings a muscular exuberance to the piece, while the youthful members of the Cleveland achieve a light, effortless expressiveness well suited to the music's many moods. It is a matter...
Indeed, the upstart Columbians, who are high on spirit but low on talent, took a 7-6 lead into the paint-starved clubhouse at halftime. The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-year rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport, who, all things considered--like the fact this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...