Word: gumption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined the Army under the delusion, fostered by a smooth-talking recruiter, that basic training will be something like "six weeks at La Costa." This, she believes, will help her recover from the grief of husband No. 2's death as well as give her the independence and gumption she has not acquired in her life as a certified Jewish American princess. It is hard to believe that a woman of 28, no matter how dippy, would think that yachting is an activity much pursued even in the new new Army, but such mild comedy as the film offers...
...chicken for Heublein, Inc. The colonel's secret recipe: he just doesn't let birthdays ruffle his feathers. Besides, says Sanders, "90 is a good landmark to start from. I'm planning to reach 100 with no problem at all." Just the sort of Gray Panther gumption that Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 80, chairman of the Select Committee on the Aging, likes to hear from his elders. In fact, most times he can get downright salty over what he calls "agism"-discrimination against the elderly. At the birthday party in his Capitol office, the oldest member...
While the officials and the lawyers wrangled, the athletes swarmed into the Adirondack village that had the gumption to become the host for the Games. Far up on Whiteface Mountain, growling Sno-Cats groomed the courses that will test the finest skiers in the world, while speed skaters glided across a shining oval of ice in front of Lake Placid High School. It could be-it should be-a glorious Winter Olympics...