Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Renewed economic gusto at these high levels of inflation could lead to even faster growth in living costs. Consumer prices during December rose another 1.2%, making 1979's inflation of 13.3% the highest annual rate since 1946. One sign of steeper prices: the 640-page budget this year jumped in price by 75? and now retails...
...service as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, which spent five years in the early 1830s charting and surveying the waters off the coasts of South America. It was the chief event of his life. Though he had little formal scientific training, the young man, played with athletic gusto by Malcolm Stoddard, had an "enlarged curiosity," as his uncle phrased it. Darwin's native skepticism turned the voyage into a fresh, vigorous inquiry into the nature of things, and the Beagle carried not only him but mankind into a new era of understanding...