Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phillips Brooks House announced that it was cutting back the enrollment in its volunteer programs to 60 per cent of the previous year's total. PBH officers said that the cutback was not because of lack of enthusiasm, but rather because residents of Cambridge had taken over guidance of several of the programs...
Political considerations must also be kept in mind when considering sites and designs for housing projects. A general enthusiasm for low-income housing in Cambridge does not necessarily mean that the neighbors of any one proposed housing project will welcome it. And Cambridge's decentralized political system makes the City Councillors--who must approve any of the zoning changes usually needed for a housing development--acutely sensitive to pressures from small groups of their neighborhood constituents...
...necessarily definitive; it could be reversed if the problems created by the new position seem to be greater than those arising in the past. Only time will tell if the various segments, of the University-including the Corporation, faculty, and students alike--will retain their new-found enthusiasm for aiding the community
...flicks on, picks up the broad back of a big man wearing a black frock coat, striped pants, patent-leather boots and a six-string guitar. The figure swivels around and drawls, "Hello-I'm Johnny Cash." At that, the 3,006 people who have been smothering their enthusiasm back in the cavernous depths of the Grand Old Opry House break loose like a thunderstorm on a hot July day. For like the man said-it's Johnny Cash...
...flight held most of the world in thrall, it was at least partly because of the infectious enthusiasm of the crew, who are all veterans of earlier space flights but nonetheless "oohed" and "ahed" at each new sight with the wonder of rookies. From the first moments of the flight, when Cernan cried, "What a ride! What a ride!," the astronauts bubbled with excitement. They repeatedly used the word fantastic. They talked so much that one capsule commentator in Houston complained half-seriously: "I couldn't get a word in edgewise." They joked with ground controllers and serenaded them...