Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initially at least, the new peacemakers met with little opposition, and even some enthusiasm. "There was no incident at all connected with their entry into the Beirut suburbs," reports TIME's Abu Said Abu Rish from the Lebanese capital. "In the column that pushed down the main Beirut-Damascus highway, one tank crewman was singing Arabic songs through a megaphone; another sat atop his turret playing a shepherd's flute. In some places the troops were received with slaughtered lambs. In others women threw rice and tincture of orange blossoms over them in the traditional sign of welcome...
Courses legislated into existence without standing the test of the "marketplace" ae not likely to please either the students or the staff. A course evolved from the special interstst and achievements of its designer is far more likely to succeed than one designed by committee. The effect on their enthusiasm and spirit of working through courses the students find unusually dull or distasteful is distinctly negative and damaging to other parts of their careers...
...happy to accept this call to serve my alma mater. I look forward with great enthusiasm to working with my new colleagues at Harvard Medical School to shape medical education to meet the changing conditions for medical practice and science," Tosteson said last night...
Coach Hunt is optimistic about the team's chances for varsity designation. "Given the talent and enthusiasm of the girls we've got now, I'd say that the change is both imminent and inevitable," he says...
Does this bother Peabody? Did Watergate bother the Democrats? Peabody, you see, is a football rarity, a "football junkie," the type of guy who, as he readily admits, "loves the game and the people who play it," who seems to get much satisfaction providing enthusiasm and cheers from the bench (and does he ever) as he would throwing a winning block...