Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What he found was a country much changed from the Somoza days. This time, McGinn says, he witnessed wide-spread enthusiasm on the part of the people. "It was clear that the people in the street were supportive," he says. "Now they could get health and educational services. The government was offering political participation and it appeared very democratic...
During the first week of his trip John Paul quickly turned characteristic Canadian reserve into enthusiasm, as he switched with ease from exhortative Pontiff to caring pastor. At an outdoor Mass for an estimated 250,000 worshipers at Quebec City's Laval University, the Pope urged a "missionary effort" to develop a "new culture that will integrate the modernity of America even while preserving its deep-seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos...
...opportunity to give the series a calculated boost. Korniyenko's headline-making reply: "There will be no difficulties on our part." American officials and scholars, who appeared during the series from the U.S. to provide contrasting views and sometimes to engage in debate, joined in with comparable enthusiasm. Said a White House aide: "The reports were worthwhile. They exposed a lot of people in the U.S. to the Soviet Union, which is a good thing, and we were able to get our views across...
...lose to Harvard, 35-21. But maybe it wasn't. The stadium, after all, is half-complete, with plans for the visitor's side awaiting funding. There was a heavy Harvard concentration, and the New Yorkers who made up most of the Columbia contingent went back and forth between enthusiasm and hope for what most of the speakers touted as a new era in Columbia athletics, and embarassment over the fact that their gridders were getting creamed...
...Dallas. Going door to door in groups of two along carefully mapped out "turfs", the Tent City dwellers registered over 12,000 new voters in Dallas. The largest single-day voter registration drive in the history of Texas was not short-lived either. Back at camp, there was great enthusiasm when Hanggi asked: "Will we be at the welfare offices? "Yes," cried the crowed. "Will we be at the shopping counters? Will we be at the schools registering 18 year-olds? Will we go door to door to door to door in our neighborhoods...