Word: zest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John D. Rockefeller's best-known son was Nelson-four-time Governor of New York, a man of great energy and stamina who harvested Venezuelan chili peppers with the same zest that he collected modern art. Rockefeller owned some of the world's costliest real estate, but for all his wealth and organization he could not sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes...
Reagan took that advice with zest. At a Minnesota Independent Republican Party fund raiser to help re-elect Senator David Durenberger, the President started slowly but hit his stride by relying on a technique that had served him well in the past. Pointing to young people in the audience, he defended his unparalleled peacetime military spending as a campaign to make America "so strong that no other generation of young Americans will have to bleed their lives into foreign battlefields or beachheads some place out in the oceans." The Republican audience exploded with cheers...
...Arte recording heralds good news: a highly original trio by Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), also born in Russia and father of an associate professor of music and director of the electronic music program at Harvard. The piece lasts a mere five minutes but has enough zest to make up for the Tanayev (which isn't all that bad). In fact, Alexander Tcherepnin's father, Nikolai Tcherepnin, taught Prokofiev, although the trio was composed before Alexander had written his most mature works, stemming from his interest in the music of Japan and Shanghai in the 1930s...
...first formal appearance since their marriage last July and marked Diana's official debut on the job. The threeday, 400-mile journey by train coach and Rolls-Royce, was a wearying one, but it never showed on the royal brows. Diana plunged into her new duties with a zest that belied her past head-down shyness. At every stop, there were excited cries of "Princess Diana! Princess Diana!" Said Charles gesturing to his lady: "There's the person you've come...
Yardling Coco Trumbell's play provided a pleasant surprise, Cheng said, adding that Trumbell played with predictable zest, but tempered her enthusiasm and skill with an uncanny court sense rarely found in freshmen...