Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to express my enthusiasm for the new program of having 260 upperclassmen advisors for freshmen in the Yard. I think it's wonderful that Harvard finally has a formal setting for freshmen to get advice from other students...
Back in the benign 1950s, Americans looked on the atom as a friend, a cheerful Reddy Kilowatt that would provide cheap, abundant electricity to run their factories, power their TV sets and even chill the beer they drank while watching them. Today much of this enthusiasm has not only evaporated but turned into antipathy. Antinuclear activists have slowed construction of power plants from Seabrook, N.H., to Diablo Canyon, Calif. Angry people in Texas, New Mexico and Washington have packed public meetings to protest government plans to use their areas for nuclear-waste disposal and to demand the removal of wastes...
...never seen such enthusiasm before," captain Mark Meyer said, "People were just going crazy...
That same afternoon, Carter called a conclave of 125 business leaders from around the nation, gave them a similar warning, and asked them to lobby Congress. The businessmen generally supported him but without glowing enthusiasm. Said R.P. Simmons of Allegheny Ludlum Steel: "The bill may be an abomination, but it's the only abomination in town...
...number of Cardinals were so exuberant at the election of the new Pontiff that they rushed up to the stove themselves and stuffed in their personal notes and tally sheets, igniting the paper with black flares. A white signal had already gone up, but now the Cardinalitial enthusiasm caused the chimney to belch bursts of black and gray smoke, keeping the crowd in St. Peter's Square guessing for the hour it took for John Paul to make his first appearance...