Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establish in the world a just and a lasting peace . . . Our foreign policy in this troubled world can no longer be a passive, a dead-a negative thing. It must be a live and a vital thing. We will wage peace, we will wage peace with all the vigor, and the imagination and the skill and energy with which we waged...
...Dewey also added was reassurance that a new team would tackle the job with new vigor, with new boundless confidence that the U.S. future had scarcely been tapped...
...story originally appeared in the Satevepost and, in many respects, is just an average piece of hack fiction. But it is worked out with sincerity and vigor, and is amenable to movie treatment. Director Hawks gives even the relatively silly episodes with the girl a kind of roughness and candor which make them believable and entertaining. And when Hawks concentrates on men working, or contesting leadership, or merely showing what they are made of, the picture practically blows up with vitality and conviction...
...attempted no detailed outline of his program, shrewdly contented himself with general pledges which friends wanted to hear and enemies would find difficult to attack. He promised a foreign policy "made effective by men & women who really understand the nature of the threat to peace and who have the vigor, the knowledge, and the experience required to wage peace successfully." He promised an administration "made up of men & women whose love of their country comes ahead of every other consideration." Cried Dewey: "I pledge to you that on next Jan. 20 there will begin in Washington the biggest unraveling, unsnarling...
...opening ceremonies over, the assembly got down to business in the shiny, modern auditorium of Bonn's Pedagogical Institute. What followed was as refreshing an exhibition of parliamentary vigor as Europe had had in years. Up rose portly Socialist Carlo Schmid to pledge his party's cooperation with the Christian Democrats (who hold a slight majority). In the past, the Social Democrats had fought the Christian Democrats tooth & nail in every election; but the Berlin airlift had galvanized both parties into common enthusiasm and common sense...