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Word: spiriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currier House Master Gregory Nagy calleddiversification a "worthy idea," adding that hesupported the "spirit of what the dean is saying...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Jewett Renews Call For Random Lottery | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

...wanted to hide from the stifling hopelessness that permeated the house, to cry for the menial, wasted lives of so many people trapped in their own inadequacy. I wanted to escape the cloud of despondency that dazed my mind and numbed my spirit...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Pushing Against Apathy | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...quit, can't stop trying to help, for that would make me an accomplice to the apathy and complacency that assassinate the human spirit. I haven't found what I'm looking for: a long-term strategy of improvement and repair for our ailing society. Perhaps I never will. But I know now that I'm not satisfied with the standard phrase of comfort frustrated volunteers get: "Anything is better than nothing...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Pushing Against Apathy | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...believe that great players are made, not born, and they try to reshape the foreign players into the Japanese mold. The Americans, intense individualists that they are, rebel. The Japanese conclude that the Americans are rude, lazy, and worse, lacking in the sacrosanct wa, the sense of team spirit that obliges the Japanese to subordinate everything else in life to the interest of the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wa Is Hell The name of the game is besuboru | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...ended 30 years of exile by kissing the ground and proclaiming a "spirit of peace, love and national reconciliation." But the homecoming of Sam Nujoma, leader of the South West Africa People's Organization, was overshadowed last week by old hatreds and death. Two days before Nujoma's arrival, Anton Lubowski, a Namibian-born lawyer and a prominent white SWAPO activist, was gunned down outside his home in Windhoek. Within 36 hours police announced that they were holding a white man in connection with the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia: Return of the Warrior | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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