Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the lack of high expectations from Carter, expressions of enthusiasm-or even keen interest-are rare. Many middle-class people seem more preoccupied with the latest fads...
More than regional pride lies behind the enthusiasm. Most Southerners think Carter will find the right approach to unemployment and inflation, the two problems that head most lists of priorities. They also share his views on cutting Government waste and overhauling the tax system. Said Atlanta Artist Charles Mitchell, who carved the 5-ft.-wide mahogany presidential seal that will hang behind Carter as he watches the Inaugural parade: Carter's hit on a lot of things that I've been fussing about for years, and now he's trying to do something. The commentators...
With his Temple Scroll labors finally behind him, Yadin, 59, is plunging into a new enthusiasm: politics. Not that his career has been confined to the campus. He was head of the operations division during Israel's 1948 war of independence, and he served three years as chief of staff of the new nation's army. Resuming his work as an archaeologist. Yadin led the digs at biblical Megiddo and Hazor and at the Masada fortress where Jewish Zealots held off a Roman siege for three years before committing mass suicide...
...American enterprise system. Partly out of a sense of responsibility and appreciation for what the country did for my family, I have tried to devote myself to public life. Having given everything I could-and time having run out on me-I am now, with the greatest possible enthusiasm, going back to the American enterprise system...
...back in uniform at practice tomorrow," he said. "My enthusiasm has returned and I'm anxious to get started playing again...