Word: go-getting
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Some fans fancied the fight, which determined the heavyweight champion of six states (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas),* as a bitter white-black confrontation. But it was more a clash of styles: Quarry the classic, come-to-me counterpuncher v. Frazier the swarming, go-get-'em slugger. Beyond that, each man was hungry-ring talk for the kind of cunning and courage that are born of deprivation...
...years, the American branch idled along; there were only 323 members in England and America in 1933, when Penrose took over as senior vice president for North America. He formed sectional committees, started a go-get-'em campaign to sign up industrialists, educators, bankers and businessmen, and the membership soared. Few ties still exist with the British organization. (British Newcomeners, who number less than 500, all serious technical men, look somewhat askance at the U.S. operation as a mere marching & chowder club...
...years, Doriot, a sweaty mountain of a man whose rubber-tired spectacles made the French think that he was somehow endowed with American go-get-'em, was a rabid Communist leader-until he was read out of the party in 1934. By 1937 he had attacked his old Communist comrades, welded unemployed and middle-class dissidents into the Germanophile People's Party with the aid of funds from Pierre Laval and other Rightists. He came to be known as the "coming Führer of France." Later he disappeared politically into Franco Spain. But now, in 1942, with...
...again in 1922-24. If the time is coming to send Tommy Atkins to glory, death and victory, quiet Mr. Stanley, who won the Croix de Guerre in hot fighting on the Western Front, will not hold the Army back. Neither will he go-get. That is practically guaranteed by Mr. Stanley's record right up to last week as a routine President of the Board of Trade and before that as an uneventful President of the Board of Education, Minister of Labor and Minister of Transport. Incidentally, in 1934 it was Hore-Belisha who took over the Ministry...