Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ugly Episode. With only one-third of the planned 600 shelters completed by week's end, cash, lumber-and occasionally, enthusiasm-were practically depleted. National Coordinator Bernard Lafayette said the campaign had funds only "for the next few days," appealed for $3,000,000 to keep it going. When others angrily pounced on Lafayette for making it sound as if the campaign were being mismanaged, he trimmed his estimate of cash needs to $84,000 and confessed: "I just goofed...
Only two additions are now slated in the Natural Sciences, though Wilcox said that a third is under consideration. He explained that students have failed to show much enthusiasm for new Nat Sci offerings...
...largely responsible for the football team's consistent success on defense. In the last ten seasons Harvard has never finished below third place in Ivy League defensive standings. Since Yovicsin must devote much of his time to public relations and administrative chores, Lentz has filled a vacuum by providing enthusiasm and instruction to the team as a whole. Defensive players who have played professional football after graduating from Harvard have remarked that their training under Lentz was equal to, or better than, that of any big-time players...
...find it difficult to understand your enthusiasm for Nixon's proposals, because it is clear to me from his remarks that he accepts the ghetto as a permanent feature of American cities...
...comment of Western Reserve University students that Case Institute of Technology engineers were "plumbers" was noted here by management and journeymen with less than enthusiasm. The local union scale is $5 hourly. The take-home of the plumber isn't something to be ridiculed, being $10,400 annually, less fringes. It is doubtful if the junior engineer's salary is that formidable. I guess that the mentioning of this segment of the construction industry in a dubious manner is something with which we'll have to live...