Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When he is in a good mood, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer is the kind of Irishman who can charm a bird down out of a tree. But when the spirit moves him, he can be so bullheaded, blunt-tongued, and bent on the grand, illogical and impolitic gesture, that neither charm, hard work, nor all the other virtues, could be expected to rescue him from the consequences. Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer, who was a bartender, a cop, a district attorney and a brigadier general before becoming mayor, has one great attribute, however-fortune...
...presidency seemed to be in his grasp. The C.I.O. was noisily for him; Franklin Roosevelt said he wanted him as running mate again. But, for political expediency, Roosevelt sacrificed him. Humiliated, Henry Wallace hung around though he had been cast off: he licked his wounded spirit in the job of Secretary of Commerce. In 1945, he saw Harry Truman step into the White House job which he might have...
Heat & Thirst. Such spirit helped to keep General Walker's "limited offensive" going on the south coast, in spite of appalling difficulties. Advancing on two winding roads through rugged country, the U.S. columns rarely had the flank protection they should have had. The enemy seemed to know just what the U.S. commanders were...
...that his government on Formosa is better than any Nationlist government of the past. Formosa (for 50 years brutally but efficiently ruled by the Japanese) is orderly, clean and prosperous looking. Over the neat towns and the green hills there seems to blow a breeze of determination and high spirit...
...story of war-wounded paraplegics makes a powerful and moving salute to the human spirit; with Marlon Brando and Teresa Wright (TIME, July...