Word: gusto
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Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard from his job as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...
...class at Princeton, then flunked out of Harvard Law School. That embarrassing event was not brought up in two presidential campaigns because the dean, a Stevenson admirer, kept the proof locked in his personal safe. But after earning a law degree from Northwestern University, Stevenson embarked with gusto on a career of public service...
...painterly" painting in the history of art. The foreground of The Leaping Horse is all matter, and the things in it-squidgy earth, tangled weeds and wild flowers, prickle of light on the dark skin of water sliding over a hidden ledge-are troweled and spattered on with ecstatic gusto...
...fared considerably better. Skating a hard, high-spirited program with gusto, Colleen O'Connor, 24, and Jim Millns, 27, won a bronze medal in ice dancing. In speed skating, a University of Wisconsin music student, Dan Immerfall, 20, picking up where Sheila Young had left off the week before, won an unexpected bronze in the 500-meter sprint...
...pulling the undergraduate rug from underneath her through a series of Harvard-Radcliffe mergings that has reduced Radcliffe to a couple of letterheads and a post office box, Horner's day-to-day role in the University has been a puzzlement. What ever it is, she plays it with gusto, and she is one of the more accessible administrators in the University...