Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stimulate sales abroad, government agencies have stepped up export credits and insurance, have even begun to lend money to importers of French goods. France sees a great market in Russia. Last week Debre jetted to Moscow in hopes of putting some spunk into the two-year-old Franco-Soviet trade pact; the Russians had promised to buy $345 million worth of French goods this year, but as of October had ordered only $250 million worth...
...figurehead proffered in the name of unity, Gengras is an outspoken progressive who wants to reform party and state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority...
...habitually activates a performer's most astonishing inner resources. The prize of his present cast is 21-year-old film fledgling Elizabeth Hartman. Spindly and coltish as Selina, with a plain-pretty face that can erupt unexpectedly into electric beauty, she wins genuine sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly real without ever being soppy, whether cursing her fate, dodging flatware during a pitched battle between Winters and Ford, or unemotionally explaining to Poitier that she is "experienced" with men because of a brutal encounter with one of her mother...
...devils go, Ghiaurov (pronounced Ghee-ah-oor-ov) was a diabolical con-man full of spunk and fire, swirling about the stage like Batman in a black leather cape and horned-toad cap. And when he sang, the voice came rolling across the footlights like a tidal wave...
...millions of others lack this kind of spunk-which stirs politicians and scholars to explanations. Senator Abraham Ribicoff argues that the poor "fared badly in the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." Author Harrington speaks of the "thickness" of poverty-the dead ambitions that make for apathy, immobility, unaspiring hopelessness. One Government study by psychiatrists found that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American...