Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Violating the Spirit...
...year later, it seems that the spirit of Houston has endured, but concrete accomplishments have been weak. The law that originally established the conference required the President to receive the women's plan and to respond by July with recommendations on how the Administration and Congress should carry out the plan. July came and went. When Carter's 58-page response was issued in September, it was entitled simply a status report...
...whole rear of the rig for the wheel change. At school, Clark, as he is called, can kick a football into the next county. When he is 18, he discovers a magic crystal that Jor-El had put in his crib and is able to talk with the spirit of his dead father, who reveals to him that his mission is to battle evil...
...decline of morality and religion, Wagner concluded, "The old Jewish God always ruins the whole thing." Roman Catholics stood little higher in their estimation and they loathed the French too. During the Franco-Prussian War, they summed things up by saying that France "has been undermined by the spirit of the Jesuits...
...entertaining in whatever medium he chose. Convinced that pleasure was an essential component of literary criticism, Plomer preferred the engaging voice of a raconteur to the severe objectivity of a scholar. "Why should we be hardened?" he wondered. "Who wants to be a fossil?" This generosity of spirit made him a popular figure on BBC radio and television, which he mastered despite his professed aversion for modern technology...