Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to their bureau chief, they began their assignment with "all the enthusiasm of schoolboys excused from classes for a week." Hillman, a citified reporter who could hardly be expected to tell the difference between a chicken hawk and a humming bird, spent one afternoon "birding" with the Perkinses in Lincoln Park's vast private sanctuary. Says he: "For the first half hour we saw nothing but a couple of sparrows, a flock of pigeons and a mallard duck, which I rashly identified as a peacock. After several hours I was chilled to the bone, bitten everywhere by bugs...
...against the frame of mind which watches without alarm while former hardware tycoons shape our diplomatic fortunes, but which dismisses all social thinking by scientists as fuzzy and fruitless, by definition. But while these considerations partly account for the failure of the press to do handstands, undoubtedly the biggest enthusiasm-quencher was the Committee's urgent insistence that all nations transfer some of their sovereignty to a central body...
...these wholesome doubts and cautions had to be understood against the background of the basic French reaction. TIME'S Paris Correspondent André Laguerre summed it up: "The fear that Americans may not back Marshall to the limit is the only factor tempering the enthusiasm of French opinion-just as the fear that the D-day landings in 1944 might not be successful added anxiety to that great news. In the French mind, the two events can be compared without injustice...
...fact was that Madrid's enthusiasm was real, not the synthetic show that Madrilenos are accustomed to giving for Franco. The 200,000 who lined Madrid's floodlit streets on the night of her arrival knew that Evita-and Argentina-stood for the wheat in their bread. As they saw more of her, on balconies, in the theater, at the bull ring, they learned that she had a way with a Spanish crowd...
...Congress has shown no great enthusiasm for the vast loans or grants with which the Administration wants to do the job. But a drop in exports may cause it to change its mind. The drop is not far off. Last week, Brazil and Argentina got ready to cut their U.S. imports. Canada is seeking means to do the same. Britain is surveying all its imports with an eye to slashing them about $800 million a year; any cuts it makes will be deepest on imports from...