Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British. The British have other advantages: the spunk that pushed friendly trade; the spunk that pushed British South American Airways across the South Atlantic ahead of other nations (TIME, April 1); ?150,000,000 of war-accumulated credits that Argentines can most conveniently spend in England; and the conviction that Peron will be smart enough to look beyond 1946 to years when Argentina will be glad of the traditional British appetite for Argentine roast beef. Such considerations, with Argentina's sticky domestic finances, suggested that Britain's $2-billion investment in the Argentine would take...
Argentines showed some spunk last week. Strong Man Perón's renewed "state of siege" (TIME, Oct. 8), the retaliating strike by 30,000 students and police counterblows made Argentina look for a while like a country on the eve of a civil...
...from Missouri had wanted to be shown. Wendell Willkie waded into Missouri last week and gave them a sample of showmanship, sagacity and spunk. When he left he had: 1) laid down a well-hewn platform for 1944, which he could develop later, plank by plank, in further speeches; 2) proved to all other G.O.P. candidates that he is still the man they have to beat...
...speaking of softball, the "Doity Thofd," which has seemed to have a lot of spunk when it came to asking pertinent questions, seemed to lack proper distribution of spunk, being about the only platoon in the company which can not seem to get together 10 men to form a team. With no practice they played two games, last both, so called it a draw. At a call last week only five men showed a desire to play...
...Bracket, Dink Donahue, Ed Barber, John Rogers, Tom Bridge, and Bill Guild. The Crimson's nets were frequently disturbed by Andover's Johnson, who scored the rest of their goals. He was assisted by midfielder Heckle, but the rest of the team did not show the former's spunk...