Word: spunk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nothing to wear! My closet is strangely bare of any athletic clothing. I finally decide on old gym shorts from high school (a vivid purple) and a white tank top. I feel almost peppy, confident that I look the part. I can do this! I’ve got spunk! Who cares that I’m not the least bit athletic—I’ll be joining scores of pom-pom wavers before me, folks like President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, all under the careful guidance of the Crimson cheer squad...
...which Biblical character would make the best skateboarder? “Definitely not Job or Isaiah or Abraham. Maybe David. He has a lot of spunk and that whole ‘No Fear’ thing going...
...Harvard—the stress of it—was all pretty hard on Isabelle,” Luke explains. “She came here really alive and capable, but then she sort of lost a lot of spunk. She became really concerned with survival, which for her was staying in school and not flipping...
NASHVILLE STAR Aspiring Garths and Shanias must perform original songs and share a house in Nashville on this country-music show, which airs early next year on USA. Choosing new material shows spunk, but can these crooners write...
...that I have of the two of us, standing outside the Hart building one day after walking to work together, shows him with his arm cast around my waist and his five foot-five inch frame rising roughly to just below my shoulder—but did he have spunk, and I have encountered few hearts as large as his. When he arrived on the floor and he began to speak, often to an empty chamber, he seemed so much larger than life...