Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides the conditioning aspects of the camp, McCurdy claims that the experience is perhaps most valuable for intangible factors like team spirit that develop there. Probably more than any other Harvard sports team, the runners are a tight-knit group. The reason: McCurdy...
Despite the strength of the opposition, though, things are looking up for Harvard. Herold says that the malaise of defeatism that persisted through last season is gone, and gone for good. Add to the winning spirit the arrival of new assistant coaches Mike Strickland and Kevin Walsh, and you have the makings of a strong team...
...carnival began in a holiday spirit as thousands of revelers calypsoed through the streets behind steel bands. Black organizations had signed up 130 voluntary stewards to help keep order, hoping to avoid a repetition of last summer's rioting in which 608 people (including 408 policemen) were injured. At twilight, however, violence erupted. Bottles were tossed into the crowd of 50,000 celebrators; fights broke out. Wary of charges that the presence of 1,600 uniformed policemen at last summer's carnival provoked the street fighting, cops at first tried to maintain a low profile; before the outbreak...
...spirit, Outlaw Blues is like a lot of country music. It is a mock-heroic ballad, loose and unpretentious in form, good-natured, yet somehow not quite so memorable as it might have been...
...ominous spirit of the mysterious East is not entirely dead. It surfaces in the pain and hallucinations of breakbone fever, in a Malay medicine man who is accused of turning into a weretiger to commit murder, and in a chilling description of the noxious Midnight Horror tree: "The flowers are pollinated by bats which are attracted by the smell and, holding to the fleshy corolla with the claws on their wings, thrust their noses into its throat; scratches, as of bats, can be seen on the fallen leaves the next morning...