Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellington, the President found that he was indeed regarded as a friend. There was some razzing from Viet Nam protesters; and the BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT banners that were to plague him throughout the area-including a huge one draped on a mountainside outside Wellington-began appearing. But the enthusiasm of the lunch-hour crowds that stood six and eight deep along Customhouse Quay and Lambton Quay outweighed the undercurrent of dissent. If the reception delighted Johnson, his reaction astounded New Zealanders, who are accustomed to the aseptic pomp of visits by British royalty. L.B.J. charged out of the bubble...
Surefire Sidebars. In his harsh assessment, Marshall even suggests that some of his younger colleagues do not display a war reporter's proper enthusiasm for lengthy bouts of bloody and dangerous combat. Too many U.S. newsmen, Marshall complains, are like the TV crews who "want blood on the moon every night." They make brief searches for "tangents and sidebars." The offbeat yarns that attract them "fall into several familiar patterns, none of which promises a beat any longer, though collectively they are beaten to death. Any demonstration or riot is surefire copy. Then there is the thing-that-went...
According to Kanin, McCormack has long been interested in using the Young Dem organization in Democratic campaigns. "He is convinced that we can bring new initiative and enthusiasm to the campaign," Kanin said. "He has faith in kids," Kanin added...
That sort of grim efficiency would never do for Notre Dame's legion of fans across the U.S. After all, what subway alumnus ever dreams of off-tackle plunges while riding the BMT home to Brooklyn? Coach Ara Parseghian knew just what was needed. "Enthusiasm," reads a sign on his office wall. "If we have it, we should thank God for it. If we don't have it, we should get down on our knees and pray for it." Fact is, Ara could barely contain his enthusiasm when the Irish opened their season against Purdue two weeks...
...severed right arm of Little League Pitcher Everett Knowles Jr. "There was something for everyone in the tale of the red-haired teen-ager," says a Journal editorial. "The public could indulge their curiosity about medical 'miracles.' " Unfortunately, the Journal continues, doctors also reacted with too much enthusiasm. Over-zealous surgeons "tried to reunite every limb, or part of it, regardless of the patient's condition or the merits of the occasion...