Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whereupon, said Nelson: "I reached out and grabbed two plates, and I said: 'When we Americans like somebody we break two plates-like this.' And I hit two plates with my fist. The plates broke all right, and my friend and the others present embraced me with enthusiasm. . . . 1 did not mind the scratch. ... It gave me an opportunity to say that my blood was merely a token-a little American blood on the Russian front...
Received: a letter; by Bertie McCormick; from: Wisconsin's ambitious ex-Governor Philip Fox La Follette, a lieutenant colonel in General MacArthur's personal entourage. Mailing point: MacArthur's headquarters; contents: enthusiasm about the Chicago Tribune's enthusiasm for MacArthur in 1944. Most notable sentence: "Perhaps some day some of us here can put our oar in back home and lend a helping hand...
...nights a week (Sunday nights off) fiercely turning out the weekly paper that is baseball's bible. In gloomy, smoke-stained offices on St. Louis' Tenth and Olive Streets, he explodes with ideas, runs up $1,400 monthly phone and telegraph bills and blasts forth the illimitable enthusiasm that makes The Sporting News so accurate and complete that even traditionally tight-fisted ballplayers buy it (15?) with their own money...
...Haven. My hat is off to young men like Captain Glenn Miller who can put aside the glamor and the big money of top-flight professional careers and enter upon the unexciting routine of an army band on army pay and throw into this new task such energy, enthusiasm and skill as to quicken the pulse and lighten the heart of everyone within hearing distance...
...were greatly relieved; three cases were failures (but two of these are continuing treatment). Says Dr. Strauss: "My own feeling is that the failures were due to errors in diagnosis. ... To draw conclusions from the evidence presented would be decidedly premature, and the evidence itself is offered with conservative enthusiasm...