Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Spirit is another quality Radcliffe girls admire in their dates, and find in satisfactory quantity at Harvard. "They have that certain something," declared an experienced senior, while many others commented on Crimson individuality and comph. A disagreeing young lady sadly wrote, "Harvard dates are docile, and it's too bad--I like the caveman type...
...must realize that at this moment most of the people of the world are passing through a period of revolution, tyranny, chaos, or all three. There is very great suffering both in body and spirit. Faith in an established order exists among very few peoples of this globe. In this situation the greatest gift we can bring to many people is confidence in order under law . . . And let us never forget that though Communist tyranny can stand between nations and the moral law, it cannot stand between men and the moral...
...these words, Republican John Foster Dulles divorced himself last week from the wrangles over U.S. foreign policy that have recently obsessed Washington. The tall, solemn G.O.P. expert on foreign affairs took, a long step toward restoring the nation's bipartisan spirit in foreign policy by accepting an $11,000 job as a top consultant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Like the recent hiring of former Republican Senator John Cooper of Kentucky as a State Department advisor, Dulles' appointment was designed to quiet ruffled Republican tempers on Capitol Hill and restore some of the harmony which...
...Feltin was chanting the Credo, Michel Mourre, a 22-year-old former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...
Coach Lloyd Jordan, who was greeted by cheers, disclosed that the new team "is making a start," and that, "We're having a lot of fun down there at practice." And Captain Phil Isenberg said he though the team has "more spirit" than before and that the freshmen "show promise...