Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
This comparative enthusiasm did not mean that Willkie had suddenly captured the Northwest. Many a G.O.P. worker grumbled about Willkie's endorsement of the Federal ballot for soldiers: Was this not another "me too" manifestation? Then there was his New York tax speech: Did that mean that he wanted to go twice as far as the New Deal...
...there was no exultant wave of optimism. The people were taking victories as they took defeat, soberly and doggedly. And the news from Europe was a hard checkrein on enthusiasm-the compressed beachhead below Rome, the slow inch-by-inch bitterness of Cassino...
...stands were packed tight on both sides of the gymnasium, mostly with ASTP and V-12 members, and their enthusiasm ran rampant for most of the evening. Many celebrities were present including the heads of the ASTP and V-12 units at Harvard and high officers from both the Army and Navy First Service Commands...
Evidence of this same enthusiasm for a TIME-produced English-teaching radio program greeted TIME'S Circulation Director, Francis Pratt, wherever he went in Central and South America last spring - and Mexico's Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera assured us that such a program would "meet with complete success not only in Mexico but throughout Latin America"-because "one of the best ways for the peoples of this hemisphere to strengthen their solidarity is through learning each other's language...