Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was the splashy beginning of a week of competition that had both swimmers and sinkers in the audience awash in noisy enthusiasm. And on the point of drowning in home-grown chauvinism, it should be said. When it was over, the U.S. had won 20 firsts in 29 events (counting the unprecedented double as one). Raw-meat roars of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"-part innocent glee and part boorish excess-greeted the appearance of each U.S. swimmer and the bemedaling of each new national hero...
Murphy said the improving financial condition had created "a new enthusiasm in the school." Gallucio Steele and other students on the committee agreed, saying that under Dean Patricia A. Graham--who has been on the job for only two years--morale among students and faculty has dramatically improved...
...suspected homosexual and, if it came away bearing traces of makeup, solemnly file it in his dossier. Taking a page from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally, learned to register false enthusiasm for female nudes, according to Poet Heberto Padilla, who insists that "manly" homosexuality was rampant in the regime. One brave and touching transvestite, named...
...Here I go again," announced the grayer but still grinning former President. "And I'm still talking about the same things . . . about simple human justice and basic human rights." It was vintage Jimmy Carter, and the convention crowd greeted his opening-night speech with respectful enthusiasm. But not every one had been certain that he would be so well received. Troubled by last week's controversy surrounding his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, some Democrats feared that Carter's appearance would only lengthen the shadow of his Administration over Walter Mondale's candidacy. Indeed, Carter...
...events." We'll take his word for it. In simpler terms, Americans make stadiums their churches because they trust that therein lies national virtue. Extolling baseball, Albert Spalding, the sporting-goods king, called the game "the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness; American Dash, Discipline, Determination; American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm; American Pluck, Persistency, Performance; American Spirit, Sagacity, Success; American Vim, Vigor, Vitality." Only real piety could inspire such alliteration...