Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis to urge peace in the Civil War. That spirit still stalks those halls...
McCurdy calls Meyer's ability to rally and inspire the squad an "amazing force," as a captain, and attributes the very special spirit of the Harvard harriers in large part to Meyer's leadership...
...like fashion prematurely honored a short-term settlement, reached for the exigencies of the moment--namely, the American desire for withdrawal. Perhaps the Nobel Committee should reevaluate the difference between short-term diplomacy and long-term commitment to human justice and lasting peace in the spirit of Steve Biko...
...American musicals and it's been performed more times by more varied casts--from summer camps to Broadway revivals--than any other play in the last 30 years. In the case of Leverett House's current production, it would seem that it was chutzpah that provided the moving spirit...
...that we may have reached those limits and are being left with only the fragments of our hopes. We are closing not only a century but also a millennium, and the accumulated force of that realization heightens a certain apolcalyptic impulse, a febrile fatigue. As if to accommodate this spirit and contain it, the country seems to want to settle only for a credible competence in its education, its government, its means of pleasure, its craftsmanship. It should never want less, but it ought to aspire to more, and universities and colleges must have the will and the energy...