Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much harder has our present job been made by past appeasement? . . . The great majority, which elects Presidents, watches and wonders, and the thing in its heart which makes enthusiasm and election victories begins to shrivel a little. There comes a time...
...threat. Last week London turned out so enthusiastically to a reception in honor of the Red Army at Ambassador Ivan Maisky's house that one of the guests said: "We could easily open a second front right now if we just turned all these fellows loose." Turning this enthusiasm to good use, Ambassador Maisky spoke as a partner, not a beggar: "It is natural . . . that the U.S.S.R. expects an early realization of the military decisions taken at Casablanca...
With controversy and dissension seething in their ranks, the Board of Editors of the CRIMSON spent last night in chaotic attempts to christen this paper. Individual enthusiasm for many of the hundred-odd names received was a commonplace, but on none of them could a majority agree...
...Government, or any party in the U.S. that favors the establishment of governments in Europe that do not require deodorizing, will receive the support and enthusiasm of the American people. But if a return to the cynical indifference of the '20s is desired it may best be obtained by the support of the reactionary plans of our State Department...
...several other U.S. citizens had tried, with little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho that horse racing would benefit Mexican horse breeding, Good Neighbor relations and tourist trade...