Word: zestfulness
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...Bundestag went about its task with as much zest as a man stepping up to the dentist's chair. Voting on 85-year-old Konrad Adenauer's re-election to a fourth term as West Germany's Chancellor, no fewer than 26 of 241 Christian Democrats present showed their distaste for their party leader by dropping blank white cards into the plastic ballot box. When all the ballots were counted, der Alte had squeaked through with only eight more votes than the required majority of 250. Many delegates ostentatiously sat on their hands, and Economics Minister Ludwig...
...nuptial marathon that blended Hamtramck zest with Grosse Pointe catering, Barbara Hoffa, 23, green-eyed daughter of Teamster Boss Jimmy, married Robert Crancer, 24, son of St. Louis' Valley Steel Products Co. President Lester A. Crancer. After a Methodist ceremony, Mother Josephine Poszywak Hoffa called the shots according to the traditions of her Polish ancestors. Beginning with a 2 p.m. wedding breakfast-filet mignon and champagne for 300 at Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies...
Conscience & Courage. The President's zest was evident at a luncheon observing the publication of the first four volumes of the papers of President John Adams and his descendants. To Adams' great-great-great-grandson, Thomas Adams, a hotel executive from Boston, Kennedy said: "It is a pleasure to live in your family's old house, and we hope that you will come by and see us." Showing a scholarly familiarity with the Adamses, the President noted that John and John Quincy were the only two Presidents in the nation's first half-century who were...
Rajah Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung was a popular feudal lord among the jolly citizens of his Balinese principality. The people of Gianjar loved him for the zest with which he lived and loved. He enjoyed great feasts of good food and was a connoisseur of cockfights. He kept four official wives and some 40 concubines. Before dying, he ordered for himself a Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon first class, the most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance...
...Street. The cats in the crowd yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest and skill. This improbable jazz musician was Father John Joseph Dustin. 45, a Redemptorist priest, who has been strumming the banjo for 36 years...