Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Planner (and onetime Bridge Expert) Ely Culbertson. It was endorsed by 16 Senators and 14 Congressmen. It would eliminate the veto in matters of aggression. If the Russians refused to agree, the other nations of the world would set up a revised U.N. without them. Fired with enthusiasm, the Foreign Affairs Committee was all set to stamp it with approval...
...Farran did not die. He fought with the maquis in France and with a group of girl partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...
...veterans were less in favor of the pending legislation with only 54 percent supporting its passage, while those in the Graduate Schools evidenced least enthusiasm for a draft with 51 percent opposed to the measure...
...South still holding out against Harry Truman, sourly conceded defeat. A.D.A., which had favored both Ike and Douglas, admitted that the President could get the nomination "if he persists [in pursuing it] with the power of his office." In other words, they would be for Truman, but without enthusiasm. When Eleanor Roosevelt, a prominent figure in A.D.A., emerged from a White House chat with the President last week, she told newsmen that she was not even going to the convention...
...professors. Men often rose early to give a lecture in the Yard, and then had to trek to Radcliffe a couple of hours later to deliver the same talk. This did not inspire the same high quality for both talks; a man could hardly be expected to master much enthusiasm the second time...