Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poland's diplomacy is Russia, but there is also a good deal of national self-interest behind its current enthusiasm. Like many other Eastern Europeans, the Poles have watched enviously as Rumania and Hungary multiplied their trade with West Germany. Russia also has steadily increased its own trade with Bonn, and so has East Germany, which Poland had been counting on as a supplier of sorely needed technology. Moreover, Moscow has been holding talks with West Germany since 1966 about a mutual agreement renouncing the use of force-a deal that Poland fears might not provide adequate security...
...cover the end of the world would be the newsman's Nirvana. And he would be functioning at the peak of his enthusiasm right up to the very end-because the most important happening that would ever occur would be happening for him. If the promised 15.000 had showed...
...late to salvage the current season, but it is not too late to change. If Yovicsin wants respect and enthusiasm from his squads, and support from the undergraduates and alumni, he will...
...Yovicsin called him the best individual player Harvard has, and Gary has special praise for linebacking coach Ralph Jelic. "He's a great student of the game and can tell you what to expect from the other team. "And he's been right every time. He's full of enthusiasm and is young enough to sympathize with the problems of young guys-whether the problems have anything to do with football...
...Lerner never seemed to be able to get together. "It seems to me that we wrote Coco by screaming at each other as we passed in airports," Previn says. When they finally buckled down to it, they worked out an ego-saving shorthand to communicate lack of enthusiasm for each other's work. "If we didn't like something," Previn explains, "we'd say, 'It fits.' That's very polite, and it has the same result as if one of us said, That's a piece of crap...