Word: enthusiastically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Garrison, also announced that he had solved the JFK assassination. His theory was that a conspiracy was headed by the director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced of the CIA's hand in the assassination...
...rational one, and thus offers a perilous guide for diverse human beings. In the realm of politics, had the world been inspired by the idea of justice rather than freedom, it might look a good deal healthier. At the onset of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke cautioned an enthusiast who sought Burke's approval of the events: "When I see the spirit of liberty in action," wrote Burke, "I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose...
...wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental stations have not reached a large public because amateurs have had difficulty in buying proper receiving sets. He consulted William S. Hedges, president of the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ. He said that if the Daily News would construct a television broadcasting station, Libby McNeill & Libby would...
While some analysts and soft-drink executives fear the explosion of new products will mean market confusion and heavier competition, others believe it will mean larger overall sales. One such enthusiast is Coca-Cola Chairman Roberto Goizueta. Says he: "Even with the multitude of products already on the market, if we expect to keep growing and satisfying the consumer we'll have to create still more. We must create more new flavors, more diet drinks, more caffeine-free ones and even new products that contain caffeine, if consumers continue to want them...
...what he has named "the electronic cottage," a Utopian abode where all members of the family work, learn and enjoy their leisure around the electronic hearth, the computer. Says Vice President Louis H. Mertes of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, who is such a computer enthusiast that he allows no paper to be seen in his office (though he does admit to keeping a few files in the drawer of an end table): "We're talking when?not if?the electronic cottage will emerge...