Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needy nations. Opening the debate with an impassioned plea for approval of the Kennedy program. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas said that opposition to the proposal "just proves that we still are not very far away from tribal society. The only thing we ever do with enthusiasm is getting ready to bash somebody in the snoot...
...Department of State. After an initial rush of excited inquiries and applications, both the mail and the publicity have settled down to something approaching normal, whatever that is. The decline in the news-making power of the Peace Corps, however, did not signify a decline in either enthusiasm or production...
...coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn and wheatfields. Everything about him is so strikingly interesting. I did it with enormous enthusiasm...
Hams boast of far more historic achievements than playing cuddly over the air waves. They have made notable contributions to the radio arts; their experimentation and enthusiasm, for example, has led to widespread use of single sideband radio. In 1957, ham operators helped track Russia's Sputnik when U.S. scientists were caught without an effective radio tracking setup. In the Congo crisis last summer, a Leopoldville ham picked up a message from a remote part of the Congo that said: "We need help; five women, eight children, four men cut off for days. Two women raped." Within hours, Belgian...
...livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes in Latin America...