Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diet that holds his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 205 Ibs., 20 Ibs. lower than last February. Dieting does not come easily. Kennedy has been known to search his staffers' desks for peanuts and crackers. Ethel Kennedy says he can describe a meal with so much gusto that "you feel you've eaten it yourself...
...magazines waddle along in step with their favorite political party, or shy away whenever the government frowns. A dazzling and from the government's standpoint most damnable exception is the weekly paper Le Canard Enchaîné-literally, The Chained Duck-which pursues scandal with all the gusto of a Gallic gourmet tucking into a baba au rhum. These days the Chained Duck is flapping its wings triumphantly, and no wonder: dangling from its bill is the meticulously aloof French President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...many of the most voluble leftists of the period have faded from the polemical scene: Noam Chomsky, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Staughton Lynd, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Kopkind ("Morality, like politics, starts at the barrel of a gun"). The Commentary crowd, meanwhile, carries on the battle with undiminished gusto...
Bowersock theorizes that faculty members are hesitant to speak at CUE meetings because students seem so eager to make their points and "wave their hands with gusto." Because the CUE is open to guests, many ERG members attend the meetings and Bowersock believes the professors find the imbalanced ratio--sometimes 25 students to two or three faculty members--"overwhelming." Professors seem less anxious when lecturing to vastly larger student audiences in class each week, but then monologues and dialogues are two different things...
...World Series has seldom seemed more enjoyable for anybody than it has for the 1979 Pirates. Known for maintaining the most boisterous clubhouse in baseball, the Pirates proved as irrepressible on the field as in the locker room. They swept Cincinnati out of the playoff with the same gusto, twice fighting through extra innings to beat the Reds. In the final game the Pirates crushed Cincinnati 7-1 under a barrage of hitting and Bert Blylevin's seamless pitching. It took four Reds pitchers to withstand the first four innings, as First Baseman Willie Stargell and Third Baseman Bill...