Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hold, Enough! In Oldham, England, Actor Antony Oakley, playing Macduff in Macbeth, charged with his dagger, laid on with such vigor that Macbeth was laid up with a five-inch abdominal wound. In Toulon, France, Baritone Fernand Lagarde, carried away by the third act stabbing scene in Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles, was carried offstage with a two-inch abdominal wound...
Instead of tearing the lost life of the College into shreds, the veteran has infused it with tremendous new vigor; instead of brooding alone, the veteran has proved false the myth raised about his introspective shell...
...civilization called European, or Western; the U.S. had become the heir of Athens and Rome simply because it was the only nation able to carry out the function of a trustee. In a trustee, good will and generosity are not enough; he must also exercise with requisite vigor the authority of his office...
...battle of the ports was being fought with fresh vigor. Cartagena, 414 years old and long a sleeper behind ancient, 50-foot-thick walls, had roused itself and gone after business. Its parvenu competitors: Barranquilla and Buenaventura. Stake: the trade between Colombia's rich, highland interior and lands across...
...closing session will be given over to authoritative discussion of U.S. responsibilities. In the past year these responsibilities have been exercised in a largely negative way, i.e., necessary resistance to Russian expansion. But in the long run, U.S. leadership must be positive and must extend in full vigor from the field of diplomacy into economic organization, education, morals and wherever American ideals may find expression. This does not mean that the U.S. will attempt to dictate or interfere with the policies of other countries. It does assume, however, that the world looks to the U.S. for more than material...