Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rise in consumer spending has also given new luster to grocery chains, department store groups and clothing producers. In addition, brokers now favor the rails, utilities and steels, whose production is expected to meet or exceed the 1955 record of 117 million tons. There is declining enthusiasm for the recently popular airlines, which are leveling out after a sharp climb, and the cement companies, which have suffered from trouble signs in the construction market...
...Republican front runner, probably sacrificed his chances with his remarriage (one school of thought insists that the birth of his son, Nelson Aldrich Jr., just three days before the California primary worked to his disadvantage, reminding voters of his recent marital situation). There has been little enthusiasm for Richard Nixon since he turned out to be a poor loser in the 1962 California gubernatorial race. Despite Cabot Lodge's strong showings in primaries and polls, he is unpopular with many Republicans who feel that he is, in unlikely combination, too aloof and patrician and liberal; indeed, the main effect...
...talked from the deck of a British frigate; he talked from the window of a German observation bunker; he described the greatest show in military history from plan to execution. Often almost professionally vague as President, Eisenhower as Commanding General was a man of self-assurance and enthusiasm, reeled off statistics with computer ease, and often, as he gestured toward empty stretches of beach or water, film clips would appear, showing the precise scene 20 years earlier, jammed with the action...
...Levin emphasized that while "there may not have been a Harvard theater there was always Harvard drama." He noted that although a number of productions were based only on "two boards and a passion," the underlying enthusiasm and the construction of the Loeb Drama Center, has finally led to stability. "Even the garden of Eden had snakes," he concluded...
Within the year, a special committee on university education for public service had reported in favor of the venture and provided detailed plans for its enactment. Princeton President Harold W. Dodds led the committee. Harvard greeted his proposals with enthusiasm, and before '39 graduated the school was in operation...