Word: passioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passion for Tunnels. Stoop-shouldered Long John Austin spent three years at the University of North Carolina's engineering school before skipping off to a Pittsburgh construction job. Within a year he was marked by his passion for tunnels. He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal. There he acquired more know-how, and a small, vivacious wife named Helen Daniels...
...politics he once said: "I am what you might call an independent Republican with Socialist leanings who frequently votes Democratic." Though com pletely loyal to Franklin Roosevelt, he could serve any other President with equal zeal. His only passion is for efficient government. This accounts for his office-holding longevity. The political prima donnas - Czars, Assistant Presidents, No. 1 Brain-Trusters, No. 2 New Dealers - may come & go, but the Smiths go on forever...
...mainly to U.S. distaste for sitting outdoors in wintry winds and sleet (in Europe fans rarely sit down during a game). The comparative handful of U.S. enthusiasts who follow the sport through its September-to-June season are mostly American-born citizens of foreign parentage who inherited their passion for the fast & furious game. Although U.S. attendance is far below the standard of other countries, U.S. pros are not. One U.S. star who can stand up to any of the world's Internationalists is Big Bill Gonsalves, a Portuguese-American who plays inside-right for the Brooklyn Hispanos...
...victims of "endless competition" and their own vanity, are incapable of "spiritual submission to or harmony with a man." Usually pretty enough to afflict a visiting foreigner with the "buck ague," they rarely have enough character to be beautiful; they are their husbands' bosses, but are incapable of passion or intimacy...
West Pointer Andrews was not a onesided air general; he held that blockade and attrition by all weapons offered the sure way to bring the Axis down. But flying was his great passion. He had about 6,000 hours on Army planes, and was an expert pilot even at 59. A flyer who knew him remarked, after hearing of the crash: "I'll bet Andy is bitching right now because he didn't take over that landing himself." And all the General's friends knew he had been ready for something like this a long time...