Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just over three years in office, Dutra has not only restored the constitution but made it the guide for his every act. He takes its description of his limited powers so literally that the press now criticizes him, savagely on occasion, for his "government by inertia." It is a rare occasion when he gets off a message to Congress, as he did three weeks ago, "taking the liberty to insist" that it get along with its work...
Almost any topnotch businessman could have qualified for the big title and the $65,000-a-year salary just by getting along with The Boss. But among candidates for the presidency of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. that one qualification was rare indeed. After cross-grained old Sewell Avery goaded Wilbur Norton into throwing up the job last spring, no one rushed to apply for it. Outsiders shunned the opening with a firm: "Not me! Not there!" Most of the No. 2 men in the company quit faster than they could be replaced, until all eight vice-presidencies...
This is a fairly rare occurrence for the '52 nine, for in almost all its games to date, it has either slaughtered vastly inferior teams or been hopelessly outclassed...
...fighting spirit is the prime example of valor. Man must muster all his skill, artistry, bravery, and strength to conquer the animal, and he does not always win. In painting the skillful technique which brings the bull to his death, Lea creates a picture of violence and beauty--a rare combination that makes bull fighting a great art to some people and makes "The Brave Bulls" an unusually interesting book...
Beyond his showman's skills, Milton gets into all the offstage acts too. Though his contract gives him the right to assist in putting the show on, he runs the whole business. He has a master grasp of the TV medium still rare among lesser practitioners who are hamstrung by radio techniques. He calls the show's camera shots, directs the acts, plans the continuity, bosses the booking, writing, lighting and costumes, dictates the musical arrangements (and frequently hands them out to the musicians), approves the scenery (and sometimes helps shift it) and, in rehearsal, often leads...