Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth victory proved the spunk of the Yardling harriers. For the second time this season, the freshmen shook off the effects of a previous loss and a rash of injuries to score strongly...
...most pro football fans, Sonny Werblin, 58, president of the New York Jets, epitomized the American Football League; both were abristle with pioneer spunk and freewheeling showmanship. Werblin led the Great Money War against the entrenched N.F.L., shelled out more than $1,000,000 in bonuses to sign first-class players, regularly topped the league in attendance. Now Sonny is stepping out, will sell his 23.4% of the Jets (estimated initial cost: $200,000) to his four silent partners for a rumored $1,600,000. The trouble, complained Sonny, is that his partners want to share the show. Said Werblin...
Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
...Phaedra with Philadelphia's Theater of the Living Arts and failed to be consumed by passion, as in Joan she fails to be consumed by faith. Like the founders of the Negro Ensemble, she has publicly deplored "the wall" most Negro performers face. With indubitable talent and spunk, she has proved that the wall can be scaled. Yet she is encouraging herself, or being encouraged, as a Negro, to attempt parts for which she currently lacks the size, range and maturity as an actress...
Recent mayors, though honest and reasonably competent, have lacked the spunk to meet the city's mounting problems even part way. During Locher's regime, says Thomas Vail, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Some of the most powerful people in Cleveland were going to city hall and saying 'Let's get going. What can we do to help?' But nobody could get anywhere with Locher." In Vail's phrase, "that little extra spark" was missing...