Word: spunk
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Over Here, after all, gives us back the surviving Andrews sisters, Maxene and Patty, who despite their thickening middle age perform with a certain agreeable spunk and a vast desire to please. But theirs is a conjuring act: their voices, coarsened with years, merely point to their original sound; what will be applauded is the memory...
...those accomplishments were long past, the Trumanesque spunk and will that produced them were evident right up to the end. After a tenacious 22-day struggle in Kansas City's Research Hospital and Medical Center (see MEDICINE), the nation's 33rd President died, at 88, from what doctors officially termed "organic failures causing a collapse of the cardiovascular system." Truman had detested Richard Nixon for years after the 1952 campaign, when Nixon implied that Truman might be treasonously soft on Communism, but the feud was since mended. Now Nixon proclaimed a 30-day period of national mourning...
...possesses spunk, stamina and en durance, but she lacks the strength of parity. She can pose no threat to the male. Instead she invites his strong protective arm, defusing the competitive antagonisms aroused by equal rights and countervailing power...
...Gaddafi, the hotspur of the Arab world, barged into the internal problems of another nation for the second time in two weeks. He was more effective than he had been in Morocco, however. By forcing down a British jet and kidnaping two rebel leaders, he took much of the spunk out of the anti-Numeiry forces...
...every typical Frank Capra movie -Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, say, or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-the hero, a generally shy but sturdy innocent, vanquished the villain, got the girl and reaffirmed once again the notion that all you really need in order to win out is spunk and some levelheaded determination...