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Word: enthusiasm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tigers quickly defused the Crimson's enthusiasm in the top half of the third. A walk and four singles gave Princeton four runs and a 4-1 lead...

Author: By Jon Unger, | Title: Tigers Sweep Batswomen, Take Ivy Title | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bless Me, Father | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

That may be changing. General Motors will roll out its $50,000 Corvette ZR1 in September, and the automotive trade press is already gushing about the car with the sort of enthusiasm it usually reserves for $150,000 European exotics. "We have finally driven the ZR1 Corvette," raves Automobile magazine. "And without equivocation we can pronounce it the fastest and finest high- performance automobile America has ever produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pussycat That Roars | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Today-full-color-weather-map news judgment in its incubating stages? I wasn't eager to find out. Not wanting to quash his enthusiasm, however, I jotted this down as the first question...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...editor at a publishing house. After nearly eight years of marriage, he is proving no match for the temptations of swinging London in the '60s. His difficulties with girls involve an inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm followed immediately by unmanning apathy. He has decided that he must be homosexual. Patrick's tasks include talking Tim out of this idea and keeping his own marriage from foundering. The author trots out these carnal misadventures with his usual comic flair. Patrick is a typical Amis hero, a young fogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 24, 1989 | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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