Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, the game itself came, and it was one of those ho-hum affairs which saw little fire or enthusiasm from either team...
...current New England tours of President Harry S. Truman and Governor Thomas E. Dewey have not daunted the enthusiasm of minor party backers, who also intend to get in their licks before Election Day next Tuesday...
...rangy, friendly, 49-year-old Kansan named William Claire* Menninger (with a hard g). This month Dr. Menninger is spending only nine days in his neat, pine-paneled office in Topeka. The rest of the time he will be on the road, making speeches and drumming up enthusiasm at committee meetings, policy conferences, and get-togethers of the high brass of U.S. psychiatry...
Retirement seemed out of the question for 69-year-old Grace Coolidge. Down from Northampton, Mass., with a youngster's snap-eyed enthusiasm, the widow of the 30th President of the U.S. saw the World Series in Boston, looking for all the world like a travel agency ad plugging the good life in New England...
...quiet, bespectacled Frenchman, he also probably has as intimate a knowledge of French and Western European politics as any reporter on the continent. He picked up his knowledge of the American idiom by virtue of some years spent in San Francisco, where his father was French Consul, his unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball as a sports reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle. A fortnight ago he renewed both of these Americanisms during a visit here for conversations with our editors before returning to Paris to cover the reconvening of the U.N. Security Council there...