Word: gusto
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...hardy, of course, are the first to point out that injuries are only, well, the breaks of the game. Gusto bring, glory; if you don't have grit, get out. And no studies such have shown that House athletic injuries outstrip those in varsity athletics. Many of the injuries that do occur specifically the wide-spread concussions of House football, have cropped up before on other fields of battle specifically in high school football (In a sense intramurals are more fertilizer to hurt than they are spawning ground...
...problems, Lousma and his sidekick, Air Force Colonel C. Gordon Fullerton, 45, a space rookie, tackled their assignments with gusto, so much in fact that they suffered from fatigue during the first few days. But they bounced back after getting extra sleep and rearranging their work schedule. Their biggest challenge was operating a Canadian-built, remote-controlled arm that reached 50 ft. outside the shuttle. When the TV camera at the far end of the arm malfunctioned, the astronauts skillfully used binoculars to guide the giant limb, even getting it to lift an experimental package out of Columbia...
...Pulitzer Prize (through his father's influence) for a book he did not actually write. A reader of second-rate adventure books, he became the darling of the intellectual and had them singing hosannas to the glorious power of the presidency. Finally, he got us into Vietnam with gusto, saw it as the perfect testing ground for his beloved counter-insurgency techniques...
...various odd indignities. In Splat, 1978, it has taken a bucketful of liquid white clay full in the face, like a vaudevillian copping a pie; a disembodied brown finger wipes the gunk away from his right eye socket. Arneson's mocking self-monuments are carried through with vast gusto and panache, and his technical resources seem limitless; besides, his formal ambitions are clear enough, below the funky surface. Even so, his work has a way of wandering off into a pointless anecdotalism, as with his tabletop sculpture of a tract home he once lived in, entitled-in a maladroit...
...times the production seems more like a series of auditions for sign language school. Someone is always grimacing or gesturing, crawling or running--mostly broad and loud actions, but occasionally a little softer, a bit more restrained, in a welcome counterpoint to the steady diet of high-pitched gusto...