Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years' service at Glassboro State College, is asked why on earth a man would want to buy his own press, his very own Chandler & Price, he squashes his soft hat down on his head, raises one finger in a hark-the-angel gesture, and proclaims: "The spirit of Gutenberg stood before me and said, 'Mitch...'" At such moments Mitch looks a bit like a road-company version of Rex Harrison (with glasses), called upon by God and central casting to reform a whole functionally illiterate world of Eliza Doolittles. And behind all the song and dance...
Joint-custody agreements depend so heavily on a spirit of give-and-take that most are worked out with assistance from mediation and reconciliation centers. The Los Angeles Conciliation Court and other divorce counselors estimate that 15% to 20% of their cases now end in joint custody. That percentage is likely to grow. Predicts Susan Whicher, a Boulder, Colo., lawyer who heads the American Bar Association's special committee on joint custody: "Legally it's terrifying for a lot of lawyers and judges, but by the end of the 1980s it will be the rule rather than...
Today is my last day as lame-duck sports editor of The Crimson. It may also be my last day as a Harvard student, depending on the mood my section leaders are in. So it is with a spirit of reckless abandon that I offer the following reflections on sports at Harvard...
...local grocer in Tehran told McWhirter that the panic hoarding of past months had ceased. "People have changed their spirit," he said. "There is nothing we are afraid of any more. Before, the old government told us to charge ten tomans ($1.30) for a box of sweets and we charged twelve. Now Khomeini says to charge ten and we charge nine...
...charge that in the past six months alone 50 pieces of church property, worth millions, have been sold. The attorney general's move touched off pandemonium; at one point, staffers at Pasadena headquarters tried to lock out state agents arriving to seize control, then were caught trying to spirit out church records...