Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street in the Old Ebbitt Grill the other day, eating his way through one of their succulent cheeseburgers, when a Nixon enthusiast tracked him down and poured out the litany of presidential loyalty. Herschensohn is used to such intrusions. He has been pursued into his home after hours. At hotel stops there are often lists waiting for him - names of the Nixon hard core who are rising to do battle in this time of the impeachment crunch. He loves it. He loves Nixon...
...ruling has produced a flap among watchers, particularly those who aspire to the elite "600 life list" of birders who have spent lives and fortunes spotting all the original 600 species on the A.O.U. list. As one infuriated enthusiast noted last week, "A lot of us people in the American Birding Association, which is made up of gung-ho list chasers as opposed to sedentary bathrobe birders, are fighting this. We're going to make up our own list based on recognizable field markings, not on with whom the birds happen to mate. The Baltimore oriole lives...
...wars, and its more belligerent foreign policies all met with Rockefeller's approval, though he did not think Kennedy went far enough. Rockefeller was for a second try at Castro after the Bay of Pigs and he supported the nuclear test agreement reluctantly. He was the country's leading enthusiast for the delusion that there could be civil defense against nuclear war. He was for U.S. intervention in the Congo, where the Rockefellers have extensive interests and as late as March 19, 1967, he was fervent in his support of Johnson in Vietnam...
...eight or ten clients, making a couple of speeches along the way and finding time to work for such groups as the National Urban League and the International Chamber of Commerce. When he is in New York City, he gets to the office by 7 a.m. A physical fitness enthusiast, Ney takes daily workouts in a gym or plays paddle tennis at the Racquet Club. "There are times when you ache all over from lack of sleep," he admits, but "if you like what you are doing, why not try to do it as well...
...FOURTH and 38 for the nation's number one football enthusiast. And Dick Whittier, the four-year varsity quarterback for USU, is in big trouble...