Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Rosen, a Jew, had placed an ad in local newspapers offering to fill in for a Christian who wished to spend Christmas Eve at home. Although Christmas is increasingly a nondenominational festival (see ESSAY, page 33), other Milwaukee Jews joined in the holiday spirit when they learned of Rosen's gesture. Some 300 members of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun volunteered to take over jobs with which they were reasonably familiar so that Christians could have the evening...
...those times especially, the heavyweight champion of the world became a figure of international fame; and, if he came from a tenement-bound ethnic minority, a folk hero. This spirit is not yet dead; though today's fighters don't go twenty-five or thirty rounds, though tickets to a good fight now cost as much as seats for a ballet, when Italian legions scream "Nino!" a gut-level nationalism is present; and when Clay returns to floor a dumb (if scrappy) Irish fighter like Quarry, and a stronger Oscar Bonavena, the crowd roars for him not only...
THERE is probably no way of destroying A Christmas Carol. A lavish musical spectacular would seem to be the most likely possibility, but, despite enough flaws to sink a less hardy subject, the spirit of Dickens manages to shine through in Scrooge, and for some that should be reason enough...
...well as a means of getting food for many. If some Alaskans like to carry their rifles hung in the back windows of their pick-up trucks even when it's not hunting season, it's not so much a demonstration of militance as of the kind of spirit that prompted one Alaskan candidate in this fall's elections to pass out bumper stickers with the legend "THE WEST WASN'T WON WITH A REGISTERED...
...have superior experience," Harvard coach Jack Barnaby said. He could have also used the words talent, training, spirit, and physical conditioning...