Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting its holdings in a big Hashimite kingdom-a development which would rouse no enthusiasm in rival Arab states...
This exceptional tutorial situation may be responsible for the enthusiasm shown by Classics concentrators in their fields--or it may be that the voluntary and what is often called the "impractical" nature of the Classics assures automatically the enrollment of only these students who enjoy the work, and are interested in it for its own sake. Whatever the reason, such things as unrequired, spontaneous themes and outside work are familiar occurrences to Classics professors, and the general enthusiasm of concentrators is clearly evidence by such organizations as the active Classical Club...
...asserted that the rules were not intended to stifle election enthusiasm but merely to curb excesses in campaigning. He referred to the gold fish eating and ice cream consumption contests of pre-war days...
...vote against recommittal of the nomination was 52-to-38. Still, the Senators had not voted for Lilienthal out of enthusiasm for him, but because a majority could not honestly find anything against...
With Kisses. To whip up Royalist enthusiasm the royal couple this year have visited troubled Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus. In Salonika Frederika plunged, over official protests, into the working quarter, won a few smiles and cheers from sullen leftists, was kissed ("from top to toe," she said) by working women outside an orphanage. When she left Salonika, a shopkeeper arranged a triptych of photographs in his window: Frederika flanked by Stalin and the Greek Communist leader, Zachariades...