Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glimpse of the TV monitors mounted along the parapets. Those who had hired opera glasses in the foyer (deposit $25, or a California state driver's license: realists, the concessionaires) trained them on the TV sets. Where else in the world, and on what other occasion, could an enthusiast spend so much money on limos, hairdresser, clothes, ticket, only to end up watching television through a magnifying lens in the distant but verifiable presence of a real event...
...most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that really destroyed his credibility. One of Lanier's partners was a scuba enthusiast, and fooled Spiro into expanding on the subject, about which Pavlovich knew nothing. The firm contacted Tulane University, then Harvard Law. Harvard asked King and Spaulding if it wished to press charges, but the firm declined--Spiro hadn't even sent them a bill for the hotel...
Meadow's major motivation became clear, even to himself, only recently. An athlete and art enthusiast for most of his years, Meadow found that bodybuilding "allows me to incorporate art and sport. I built myself into a hulk of flesh and now am sculpting myself out. Self-discipline is my chisel...
...hour, which would have had to go on the electioneering tab, the desire was squelched. Phone records can get Presidents into trouble. When Richard Cheney, Ford's chief of staff, was on Face the Nation the other Sunday, some California enthusiast sent an election contribution to the White House. Cheney adhered religiously to the new guide book. The money was not delivered to the committee, but was mailed directly back to the contributor with instructions as to how he might send it back to Washington to the committee's address...
...part story because a member of his family took lithium for manic-depression "and I have personally seen the results." Lear had the scripts checked by Harvard's Dr. Marcia Guttentag and by the director of research at Rockland State Hospital, Dr. Nathan S. Kline, a lithium enthusiast who has treated some 2,000 patients with the drug. Kline's book on depression, From Sad to Glad, was plugged on the Maude show...