Word: spunk
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...weather cleared and the Government launched an actual offensive across the Struma, with heavy artillery, cavalry, infantry and machine gun units. The rebels suddenly seemed fatally short of ammunition and the Government's planes bothered them badly. Under a rain of bombs and propaganda leaflets, Macedonian spunk rapidly crumpled...
...will no doubt get much criticism for your action, especially from those who are not respectfully inclined, but I glory in your audacity and spunk in rendering respect and honor to the office of the President...
...British Isles on foot, mostly in the teeth of wind-whipped rains. One Scottish detachment had a bagpiper who mournfully skirled the subversive "Internationale." Miners from the boarded-up coal pits of Wales, shipwrights from the silent Tyneside, locked-out weavers from the Midlands arrived with some show of spunk and morale, but the weak & weary contingent from Henry Ford's plant at Dagenham (now working at a fraction of capacity) were a disgrace to their comrades. Exhorted to parade around Hyde Park, they squatted down as soon as they reached the greensward, exerted themselves no further than to join...
...took the stump in his own behalf. As he crossed the line into his native Iowa, he thawed to the welcome of friends, recalled the old swimming hole of his childhood, greeted his old schoolmarm (see p. 29). As he journeyed back to Washington he lashed out with new spunk and spirit at his opponents...
Last week, a young Japanese named Furoda made up his mind that he had been extraordinarily insulted. Japanese of the Old School understood, sympathized. They were glad that at least one young man had the spunk to consider himself insulted by the frequent radical utterances of notorious Senji Yamamoto, loud-mouthed Farmer-Labor member of the Imperial Diet. ex-Canadian dishwasher, publisher of The Japanese Birth Control Review...