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The spirited pursuit of the unknown—so long a defining quality of medicine—now seems seriously endangered.
At college level, where the antics of the fans and cheerleaders are far more spirited than at the professional matches, the team with the strongest tradition is the Trojans, from USC (the University of Southern California) in Los Angeles.
The papers' consensus star of the day, Clinton attorney Cheryl Mills (the papers want whenever possible to have heroes and villains and they love new faces), responded to the House prosecutors' charge that Clinton had violated Paula Jones' civil rights with what the LAT calls a "spirited defense" of Clinton's civil rights record, referring along the way to Bill Clinton's shopkeeper grandfather's penchant for selling to blacks when few whites would.
in the dual role of the overweening 17 th century boy king Louis of France and his twin brother, Philippe, who was first spirited away at birth by a father fearful of internecine struggles and subsequently locked in the bowels of the Bastille, his features concealed by the eponymous iron mask.
I'm not sure if the "being free spirited" angle has really worked all that well for her so far.