Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ITEM: At a dinner party in New York's Westchester County, the dessert includes grapes. The hostess notices that her fellow suburbanites fall to with gusto; the guests from Manhattan unanimously abstain...
...shot of rum he favors. At another table may be West German President-elect Gustav Heinemann. Berlin's Mayor Klaus Schiitz, a patron since his days in the Bundestag, is always seated at the same table overlooking the garden: he usually wants fresh pineapple for dessert. With Bavarian gusto, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss is fond of dropping in for post-midnight salami, black bread, beer and Steinhager...
...shorthand style. "Vu" meant seen but waiting for better arguments. "Soit" meant so be it, but not the best solution. "Oui" meant O.K., but he still had reservations. Only the best dossiers got a "D'accord," meaning that the matter was settled. Pompidou began to enjoy politics with a gusto, and it showed even in his complaints. "I am bombarded with daily problems," he said one day. "I handle dossiers of a burning actuality. Everything is urgent at Matignon [the Premier's office]. But when I arrive at the Élysée, time no longer marches in the same step...
...sure would have. I first heard "fuck" just about ten years ago, when I was in the fourth grade, and it sounded so fine. I used it with gusto for at least three months before some sixth-grader finally explained what it meant. After that, my friends and I whispered it behind the coat rack at school and shouted it down at the river bank. We believed that the sixth-graders had made it up and that no girl had ever heard it, because it was for men only...
...injured so severely that doctors predicted he would never play professional baseball again. But Conigliaro fought an extraordinary battle to prove the doctors wrong. Last week, as the Grapefruit Circuit closed, the 24-year-old Conigliaro was not only back in uniform but whacking the ball with the gusto and effectiveness...