Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McLaughlin was concerned, it was a matter of team spirit...
...sequel to tabling outside registration. But this fair had a different flavor--group leaders talked to each other; students were able to converse with club members and see them show their creativity in creating a carnival atmosphere; and Harvard suddenly looked like a place with a lot of school spirit...
Strauss said he thought some of the bands didn't quite fit the spirit of the event...
Iraqis are a proud people, but poverty has brought many of them low, poor in spirit as well as dinars. Their whole focus today is on basic survival. A government department head uses his car as a taxi after hours, while his wife takes in laundry. A young Iraqi woman fluent in four languages who once ran a hire-car firm now earns only $7 a month in a similar job. To keep going, she has had to sell so many possessions that she and her grandmother sleep on the floor and eat with their fingers from cooking utensils...
...current Broadway production of the King and I, the King of Siam, once played with electric virility by Yul Brynner, comes off as curiously sexless. Overt animal masculinity seems to have been suppressed, perhaps as being retrograde, or even offensive to the spirit of the age. That musky beast belongs offstage, or in the Museum of Natural History...