Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations in 1947 bequeathed them to the U.S. as a trust territory. Ever since then, the U.S. has been a benign, if a bit abstracted, presence in the vital geopolitical center of the Western Pacific. It is not a duty that the U.S. has performed with any notable enthusiasm, particularly in contrast with Micronesia's previous rulers, the Japanese...
...dose when it is concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning cloud of light with sparks shooting off, jagged, in all the colors of the rainbow, the universe in the process of creation. And you're a part...
Nowhere is ecumenical enthusiasm for Reformation Day greater than in The Netherlands. There, Catholic, Protestant and even Jewish scholars have participated in preparing a televised series of documentaries on Luther and his ideas, and this week there will be a major interfaith symposium at the Lutheran church attached to Amsterdam's Municipal University. Also in Amsterdam, Jesuit Theologian Pieter van Kilsdonk will celebrate the anniversary by presiding over a combined prayer service for Protestants and Catholics in a college chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola-a patron saint of the Counter-Reformation...
...might have seemed to any dial-twirling fan who tried to keep up with the dizzying array of TV sports shows last week. The enthusiasm is understandable, for sport is the most consistently exciting spectacle on TV. The cameras follow the bouncing ball with such telescopic expertise that they have turned the living room into a locker room and Daddy into a sports nut. This season the three networks will telecast 796 hours of sports-more than twice as much as ten years...
...large turnout, 75 people in all, and great enthusiasm have accounted for the success of the team thus far. Tupouniua has been impressed by the great coordination between his backs and forwards, surprising for this early in the season...