Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheer misuse of apparent purpose, perhaps the "night crawler" deserves special mention. No one knows what this young lady does with herself during the daytime, but like the stars, she comes out at night. Fall of vim and vigor, she easily eclipses the she-skiers, and ogles all tired but available males...
...defeat was costly to the loser: Field had spent $10,000,000 to learn that a newspaper war takes more vigor than virtue to win. The casualties were heavy: a third of the 360 on the editorial staffs were fired. Most were Sun employees, whose only solace was double severance...
Citing the "tremendous vigor of technology" required by modern civilization, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, predicted Thursday that the capital expansion involved may duplicate by 1990 the increase in reproducible wealth accomplished in the United States during the 60 years prior to World...
Trains were crowded, but washroom spittoons were polished like gold again, and porters waved their whisk brooms politely over departing passengers. The country which rushed by outside the windows had an amazing look of vigor and opulence; new automobiles gleamed on highways, new houses stood expensively in muddy yards. At dusk the homing passenger could glimpse the never-ending glimmer of colored Christmas lights in streets, stores and farmhouses. From the air, the U.S. seemed even richer; there was a look of treasure in the jeweled electric glitter of its cities seen by night...
...movies richest in spirit and vitality came from Italy. By comparison, even the best British films were academic and genteel (Britain's best was, significantly, an adaptation of a literary classic). French films in general were ultra-civilized but low in vigor. Russia had all but ceased to exist as a source of movie interest, except to Russophiles; Germany was just beginning to stir...