Word: zestfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manosque, Basses-Alpes, of French-Italian stock, Giono is essentially a nature-loving mystic. He is a teller of wry, earthy stories of the peasants in whom he professes to see the joy of the good life embodied. He has written about these people, sometimes bafflingly but always with zest and imagination, in The Song of the World, Harvest, and Joy of Man's Desiring...
...years, without losing his reformer's zest, he picked political losers. Then in 1932 he organized Midwest Republican Progressives (the nearest thing to a party label he would pin on himself) for Franklin Roosevelt...
About 85% of the zone's eligible citizens queued up at the polls. But the heavy turnout was not all due to sudden democratic zest. Said Bürger Nikolaus Menge of Bad Sooden: "I'm voting today because it will please you Americans. . . ." Said Bürger Hans Berger: "The polling booths are the warmest places in town...
Youth for Christ rallies began in New York in 1940 under the two-fisted leadership of a handsome young ex-insurance salesman, Jack Wyrtzen, whose zest for life had previously found its outlet in playing the trombone for a cavalry band. It mushroomed in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units...
...Canadians leave home because salaries are higher in the U.S., because "the canny, cautious conservatism which has so often characterized Canadians, rich and poor alike, [makes life in Canada] discouraging." Young people especially seemed to find that "the inertia of their entrenched elders had drained Canadian life of color, zest, adventure, and the stimulation which comes from free-ranging experimentation in ideas...