Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile they were having second thoughts on the conference at Yalta. The throbbing enthusiasm of the radio commentators that first night had faded away. Questions were being asked and criticism was beginning. Whatever the Big Three fixed up at this meeting, it was not, by itself, a guarantee of peace everlasting, even of peace in our time. In Washington, Administrative forces scurried around trying to make the most of what had been accomplished at Yalta...
Prime mover of the Sears experiment is forthright, pink-cheeked General Robert Elkington Wood, 65-year-old Sears board chairman. An aggressive merchandiser, West Pointer Wood has long dreamed of chancing the Mexican market, but risks have always tempered his enthusiasm. They still do. Said Bob Wood last week: "Hell, this is strictly . . . a gamble . . . [but] we're hoping it will be a success and then we can go on and expand in Latin America...
With breathless enthusiasm, the newscasters announced that the eight-day meeting of the Big Three in the 100-room Crimean castle of Livadia had ended. (They had a clean beat, for many an afternoon newspaper had suspended publication because of the holiday...
Because of his own enthusiasm for science, Van Anda made it front-page news, devoting big space to Marconi's experiments in telegraphy and to Peary's and Amundsen's polar expedition. He led the way in making Einstein and "King Tut" U.S. household words...
French women were also preparing to shed their political veils last week. In April's municipal elections they will vote, for the first time in French history. They had registered in great numbers (761,428 in Paris alone), but with varying enthusiasm...