Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residential houses continued into the 1970s and mirrored social trends as living off campus became chic, house officials say. Also at this time, the University decided to give graduate students the option of joining the house in hope that when these doctoral candidates became professors, they would bring their enthusiasm for the house system to other colleges...
...offered an elegant performance that placed her fourth. (Caryn Kadavy, the most expressive of the U.S. skaters, was forced to withdraw from the competition with a 103 degrees fever.) The charmer was petite Midori Ito of Japan, only 18, who entranced the audience with her powerhouse jumps and girlish enthusiasm. As she concluded her routine with a gravity-defying triple Lutz, Ito shook her fists triumphantly above her head and burst into unabashed tears of delight. Though she finished fifth, Ito received a standing ovation -- something Witt did not earn...
Back then Gore fought Bush's efforts to lift the 4.5% interest lid on Government bonds. Bush hammered Gore's enthusiasm for the Trade Expansion Act in John Kennedy's Administration. But the two joined in the struggles for civil rights legislation. "There was never an impolite exchange between us," recalls Gore. "We could debate for two hours and then go down to the Senate Dining Room and have coffee together...
...though he isn't a captain, the senior's maturity and enthusiasm help to get everyone on the white team (the second team) ready to face the red team (the first team...
According to Kipnis, these lunch hour serenades are just the thing to create enthusiasm in an apathetic student audience. He started them after an experience at a university in Missouri: "I learned, as usual, that student attendance was poor, and I volunteered to play in the cafeteria during lunch. I was told afterwards about 75 students lined up at the box office to purchase tickets for the next evening's performance," he says...