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Word: spirit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just couldn't believe how well we were doing," said Co-Captain Kelly Flynn. "I've never been on a Harvard team that had such a positive spirit at that point. We were knocking on the door to first place...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Finish Fifth at Coast Guard Tournament Behind Cole, Willoughby | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests: all these come fairly naturally. Instilling entrepreneurial spirit and managerial efficiency on any level higher than selling lemonade at curbside is a lot harder. Eastern Europe is littered with the wreckage of previous attempts at economic reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Go East, Young Man? | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...spirit of the HPR survey, here are my nominations for the top five policy imperatives facing...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Real Life, Real Answers | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...attractive idea lurks at the center of this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Murphy's One-Man Band | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...actually jumped up on my seat when Harvard scored. I screamed. I felt happy when we were winning. I exchanged high fives with the people sitting next to me. I felt depressed when Yale started coming back. I ran onto the field afterwards. In short, I displayed school spirit...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Can't Help Being Bourgeois | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

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