Word: zest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remote as the Southern threat was, it added zest to the Republicans' own festivities. In Huntington, W. Va. for a Lincoln Day address, Senate Republican Whip Ken Wherry taunted: "Where are the Jeffersonian Democrats today? They are just waiting to be invited to join...
When Nathan died, Maurice lost his zest for business. He got to brooding about the thing that had killed his brother -cancer. One day he announced: "From now on, all I want is to see cancer licked." As soon as the two younger Goldblatt brothers, Joel and Louis, returned from the war, Maurice turned the family's 15-store, $86-million-a-year business over to them and went out to fight cancer...
...students with prints ink in their blood, a deft quill in their hand, and a zest for seeing their doodling in the public press are invited to the CRIMSON building tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock to enter a staff artist competition. Liquid inspiration will be served...
...kind of jape that Harry Truman thoroughly enjoys and he joined in with zest. Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.* Margaret wore a shoe-length slicker and sou'wester, which made her look like a Morton Salt boy. She was told to mount watch for Davy Jones, who traditionally appears the day before crossing...
Fresh in every mind was the cheering news of the Democratic comeback in Chicago (see Political Notes); the thought gave added zest to the diners as they pitched in to their $100-a-plate dinner. Over coffee and cigars, Gael Sullivan, the Democrats' national executive director, served up the main political fare. Said he: "In front of us today we have a leader-tested and triumphant. He is ... confident because of the people's confidence . . . eager to see and do the right because his, hopes have an abiding kinship with the people's hopes...