Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have to generate a good deal of spirit if it hopes to tumble Brown tonight. The Bruins, on nothing but spunk, luck, and a few rough checks, smashed the varsity in their last game, at Providence, February...
...Crimson added two in that session but could only score two more in the second period, as Tech goalie Joe Bova made some good saves, and the Engineers occasionally played with much spunk...
...break the language down into six main classes (abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, affections). Then under each class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
Immersed in the jazzy, sometimes obscene argot of the addicts and spiced with lurid episodes, Flee the Angry Strangers packs documentary punch but lacks point. Diane and her friends may need analysis; they need spunk and a spanking more...
...father's arms. Although another operation was scheduled, and Donald's recovery still depended on how quickly nature could rebuild his wasted body, Arthur Morton was convinced that his son would live. "How can you give up?" he said. "Look at the spunk in him. God will not let the spark...