Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production...
...Said he: "I have never conceived that fraternal association with the U.S. would militate in any way against the unity of the British Commonwealth or Empire or breed ill feeling with our great Russian ally. ... I do not think we have to choose this or that. With wisdom, patience, vigor and courage we may get the best of both...
...saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...
...mostly Wrigley wants to indulge in his favorite sport of being Wrigley's largest stockholder. Though he told the other stockholders last week that he was "going into 1944 well worn down physically and with a consequent lack of enthusiasm and vigor," no one who knows him expects him to regain his health away from the business...
Free Enterpriser. The Boston speech was only one of twelve that busy Eric Johnston made last week. Both the speech and the week were typical. The speech was an almost electrically fresh restatement of old but much neglected truths. Its impact derived from its clarity, frankness and vigor; from Businessman Johnston's position as head of the traditionally hidebound Chamber, and from his steadily growing personal prestige. Since his election to the Chamber presidency in 1942, he has hopped over the U.S. city by city, to South America, to England, talking constantly at and with businessmen, labor leaders...