Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the game, Joe Restic seemed to reflect the spirit of the day. Depressed by his team's lowly nine first downs (5-18 third-down conversions), the injury to St. John, a possibly serious aggravation of a bad shoulder for stalwart offensive tackle Mike Durgin, and a defensive performance that was missing only the offensive complement, Restic struggled for optimism...
...ceremony at the White House was meant to be a kind of revival meeting -a rekindling of the spirit of Camp David that led to the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement one year ago. But even as Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Vice President Hoshi Mubarak lavished praise on President Carter for his role in forging the historic accord, a potential new obstacle to the glacial peace process arose. With exquisitely bad timing, the Cabinet of Premier Menachem Begin chose the eve of the agreement's first birthday to rescind a twelve-year prohibition against land acquisitions...
...wait. (I was panicking.) Surely we can settle this difference of opinion in the spirit of peaceful compromise," I pleaded. "You're sensible people. You can't dislike pastry that much...
...time, with an eye toward the glaring weaknesses in the Crimson lineup, I regarded Restic's comment as the optimism of a coach desperate for a strength to highlight. After all, spirit? The glee club has spirit; your fourth-grade gym teacher had spirit; an Irish Setter puppy has spirit. But a football team has bulk, speed, agility, experience...
Well, no more. This team has confidence, and--yes--spirit. They are a very convincing group...