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Why this should be, when it wasn't her idea to join Wings in the first place, and when by all available evidence she kept Paul McCartney wildly happy--and with him raised a flock of spirited children whose achievements are beginning to come to light?
A few hours later, Michael Irvin of the Dallas Cowboys offered this spirited defense of his coach on TV after his team won the National Football Conference title: "Nobody deserves it more than Barry Switzer.
The Guardian of London reported Monday that Osama bin Laden, America's most wanted foreigner, has been spirited away from his pursuers with the connivance of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia.
I'm not sure if the "being free spirited" angle has really worked all that well for her so far.
The novelists, journalists, and thinkers whose prose filled Shawn's New Yorker spent much of their days roaming the office halls, striking up spirited discussions of literature or current affairs.