Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Stirling patented a new engine for pumping water out of mines and quarries. It could run on almost any fuel, he boasted-including whisky. Indeed the parson had such faith in his engine that he often cut his Sunday sermons short to work on it. For all his enthusiasm, though, when Stirling died in 1878 at the age of 88, his engine was still unperfected. Soon it was totally overshadowed by the newer gasoline-powered internal combustion engine...
...gangsters stirring about credibly in the south 40, but Director Fleischer manages a few action sequences that occasionally distract one from the general silliness of the whole enterprise. Al Lettieri may be the heaviest-handed heavy now operating in the movies, but he does bring a certain entertaining enthusiasm to his work as a big-city hit man lost in the alien corn. Any other actor might have broken up when required to order an innocent and helpless melon crop to be machine-gunned as an act of vengeance. But the sadistic gleam in Lettieri's eye burns bright...
...When the call came, he became "very thoughtful," says Hugh Morrow. "I've got to tell Happy," Rocky said somberly as he wandered off to a pine grove where his wife was walking her dog. Exactly how she responded is not known, but probably with, at best, muted enthusiasm: Happy is a deeply private person who does not relish the role of a political wife. "As a concerned citizen, I'm thrilled," she told reporters later. Then she added with a thin smile: "As for me personally, it's the beginning of a new adventure...
...potted plants. "Don't I always?" Susan retorted. "And when I'm away, well, I'll find somebody. Maybe Mr. Harriston, he's so nice . . ." Mr. Harriston, a White House doorman, is probably never near the third-floor solarium, but Susan's enthusiasm may prove irresistible...
...state that he clearly loves. There is the January morning when the bay near Cole's house in Brunswick becomes a 30-sq.-mi. ice rink, and he glides across it alone, watching the sun and clouds pass in perfect reflection under his skates. With unabashed enthusiasm, Cole explains his lifetime love affair with Roccus saxatilis (striped bass), that "master of tumbling currents and white-water turbulence." Like a poet, he extolls the virtues of the northwest wind and wonders how city dwellers can live without "knowing which way the wind blows, which way the rain falls...