Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took three years of negotiation to produce last week's plan. Final action will take at least two more. Neither denomination has yet shown much real enthusiasm for the merger. But if & when the two unite, they will form a church of 4,000,000 communicant members with an additional constituency of 4,000,000 non-communicants...
...there was no visible enthusiasm for reprisals on German civilians. The destruction of Cologne was not a reprisal. Cologne was a military objective. The New Republic spoke for many when it said: "Certainly we should carefully balance the arguments on both sides, before embarking on a course that would in any way stain our record in the war or drag us down toward the Nazi level...
...spring coats against the chill, windy sunshine outside, sat together in the Ladies' Gallery, while across on the right Maisky was joined by Ambassador Winant in the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery. Observers believed that if Churchill had made the statement he would have aroused the House to more enthusiasm than the rather pedantic, high-voiced reading of the impeccable Eden. Said one political correspondent: "If it had been an Admiralty statement, the old man would have waived protocol and made it himself...
...which he likes to describe as "the removal of electrical garbage" (noise suppressers to the layman) was never able to support drinking fountains in its old red-brick factory until war came along. Now it's terrific—and a prime example of how a little businessman with unbridled enthusiasm and pixie screwball-ishness can capitalize 14 years of struggle and adversity to make himself invaluable to the war effort...
Doctor of Science. Citation: "A geologist of rare imagination and wide vision, his enthusiasm has aroused psysicists, chemists and astronomers to cooperate in the advancement of his science...