Word: uplifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became a new occasion for martial rhetoric and muscle flexing. Months later, when the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed throughout Europe, we Americans did not dance in the streets. What we did, according to the networks, was change the channel to avoid the news. Nonviolent revolutions do not uplift us, and the loss of mortal enemies only seems to leave us empty and bereft...
American democracy may be the inspiration of the world, but the transcendent spirit has dismally failed to uplift U.S. elections. Once again this year, politics has degenerated into a duel of negative TV spots, even before the desperation tactics that usually erupt in late October. In California, a barrage of blistering commercials in the Governor's race conveys the impression that Charles Keating was a piker in the S&L scandal compared with Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Dianne Feinstein. Texas voters are so dispirited by the ugliness of the gubernatorial shoot-out that both candidates probably could be defeated...
...Historically, we are technically sound, withlots of speed," Kingston said. "We normally lostbig games against bullying teams, so this providesa great uplift pyschologically...