Word: spirits
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...spirit of cooperation I have seen in this hall is what is needed in Washington," Bush said. "It is the challenge of our moment...
...clouded with suspicion. By September, when he said he would step down the following July, Peruvians were glad to see him getting ready to go. When he planned a private trip to Japan and then decided to stay, Peruvians were surprised that the man who boasted of his "samurai spirit" had given...
...Devil's Advocate), the film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys. Even Ryan, with too much attitude and nonstop nutating, finally gets into the film's burly spirit. All this is enough to stoke the action engine, but the movie has a fuller agenda--to give its characters flesh and a meaningful melancholy...
...called a time-out from the rules that dictate our everyday lives, and for many families this is a delightful occurrence. Unfortunately, this time of year also presents us with unusual social situations that call for extended families and friends to come together and share the convivial spirit of the season, which in my family leads to the annual shock of rediscovering that our adored children are, when it comes to eating, a pack of wolverines...
Another character, called "you," is on a quest to reach Lingshan, "ling meaning spirit or soul, and shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid...