Word: gung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward was handed his job in R. & D. when the Navy created the division in 1957, has since been one of the strongest proponents of a unified national space program...
...Burning Tree more than anybody else on Capitol Hill) became majority leader for the second time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support-and so do I." Many an Administration measure squeaked through because...
Yalies were considered "much less intellectual, conformists, gung ho." Princeton's Tigers were swept aside as "smooth, social-minded, definitely conformist...
Many readers will be undismayed by the photography and will flip the pages until they come to the generally tolerable House features. The article on Dudley is especially well written, while the Dunster House feature is too gung-ho even for Dunster House. If the reader can get past the authors who have an axe or two to grind and the writers who try too hard to prove they are talented, he will probably thumb his way to the back of the book and the articles on extra-curricular activities...
...times this atmosphere has been interpreted into a party or "gung ho" feeling. Such a sentiment is provoked in a few; for most, however, the cordiality is pleasant and the friendliness enjoyable...