Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franks lacks Reading's vast experience of affairs. Lothian's enthusiasm and Halifax's impelling warmth. But Franks is in his own right an interesting specimen of homo britannicus. As a friend summed him up recently: "Franks believes passionately in the Sermon on the Mount, but he does not think that, unaided by men of intelligence like himself, the Sermon can do it all alone...
Despite the enthusiasm of the Mexico City congress, Communism is actually on the decline in Latin America. It has been outlawed in nine countries, plagued by party splits in others. In several countries, e.g., Cuba, the party has deliberately cut its own membership rolls to be ready for underground activity. Moreover, the peace rally could boomerang on party members in some countries. Brazil's Deputy Pedro Pomar, who is a member of the outlawed Communist party but holds his seat because he was also elected on the Social Progressive ticket, was threatened with expulsion from Brazil's Congress...
...results were astonishing to both readers and editors. Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design...
Last week, in the arc-lighted ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, before a tough audience of some 200 newshawks and cameramen, the trim, grey-suited American told Britons some harsh truths - with a chaser of enthusiasm and hope...
With President Eurico Caspar Dutra's support, a provision was written into the 1946 constitution setting aside 1% of all national revenues for development of the valley for 20 years. Since then, Dutra's enthusiasm for the project has become almost an obsession...