Word: gusto
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...power brokers as anyone in the city. Dobrynin has soared across the nation in the private jets of capitalists, put down a buck or two at the Kentucky Derby, poked around the Alaskan pipeline, biked in blue jeans with his granddaughter, and assaulted a Big Mac with a gusto rivaling that of the Chicago Bears' William ("the Refrigerator") Perry...
...being born in a log cabin." Like many other second-generation Americans, Jacob Koppel Javits was impelled by his humble origins into a life of public service that carried him from his ghetto "log cabin" to the halls of legislative power. Few made the journey with more confidence and gusto, and fewer still left behind a legacy of greater political achievement. When he died last week at 81, of complications from a degenerative nerve and muscle disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Javits had influenced as much important legislation as virtually any Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate...
...could go for the gusto and put Adams first anyway. You know, just to show Harvard that I can't be intimidated...
...star power of their guest lists. By that standard, the 1,500 delegates who gathered in Washington last week for the 13th annual Conservative Political Action Conference had every reason to congratulate themselves for having arranged the hottest party in town, and many proceeded to do so with gusto...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...