Word: gusto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more shame than pride. With forced busing, selective law enforcement and personal liberty as smoke screens, Southern Governors and Congressmen are showing their true prejudicial colors [March 2]. I am sickened by the verbose hypocrites who give lip service to "all deliberate speed" in integration and simultaneously work with gusto to keep integration a dream...
...particular has always been as much a series' games as anything else, and last Tuesday's committee hearings on the bill take over Harvard Stadium by eminent domain were no exception. This time, the game was "Save the Patriots-Get Harvard," and many a politician played it with gusto...
...moved into the drafty, unfinished White House just before Christmas, 1800, and threw the first party there on New Year's Day. Ever since, the holidays have been a lively season at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Few presidential couples, however, have gone at the Christmastime merrymaking with quite the gusto of Richard and Pat Nixon. For the holidays they have peopled the place with choirs, Bob Hope, the Apollo 12 astronauts and more than 6,000 other Americans, renowned and unknown. To fuel those guests, the kitchens turned out 25,000 cookies, 1,130 gallons of fruit punch...
...think Nye and I both noticed that Vernon was acting his role with a little too much gusto. To follow the metaphor, he wasn't watching the beast closely enough. My stance was shifting constantly, so I was unsure how well I was doing. I knew though, that Vernon was playing badly. He was a man. I thought, who probably lost at poker...
...quarterback for the Boston Patriots who was sitting behind me in the press box as a coach for Holy Cross. Holy Cross did not do everything right Saturday, and when errors were made, it was up to Yewcic to point a number of them out, which he did with gusto. I winced when Neil Hurley made that important interception because I knew that as soon as Pete Stratton, the intended receiver, got to the sidelines, he was going to hear Yewcic's opinion on how well or how poorly he had run his pattern. It was tragic...