Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily routine in Washington of attendance at cocktail parties, banquets, concerts, and other social gatherings demands the stamina and inexhaustible vigor of a man who has pledged himself to the difficult task of winning friends and friendship for his country. "When I get tired," he says, "I take a walk in the fresh air, or else I sit down for a while and just think. Thats' enough...
...That isn't the half of it," he returned, with another shudder and the hint of a sob. "Attend, my boy, and you shall hear the whole sad tale of how I have been reduced in the course of half a morning from a young man flushed with the vigor of his bursting prime, to the doddering human wreck you see before you. "It all began at about seven this morning. I was sleeping the sleep of the young and the innocent, as is my custom of a morning, when the phone rang. I got wearily to my feet, staggered...
...present crisis, the islands had become a symbol of the principle that, in an orderly world, an aggressor cannot be allowed to assert territorial claims by force. That principle the U.S. was properly committed to defend-with a vigor that many of its allies could be grateful for but were too pusillanimous to join. An agreement on the islands' neutralization would be bitter tea for Chiang Kaishek, but it might also be the only way to remove what Dwight Eisenhower called "the thorn in the side of peace...
...that though Macmillan is not willing to join physically in the military defense of Quemoy, Churchill's words reflected accurately Macmillan's willingness to give his U.S. ally full political and moral backing in time of trouble-something he cannot afford to say with as much vigor as he would wish in the face of British public opinion. From No. 10 came a stiff statement that "Mr. Churchill's article was not authorized," that Britain had "no commitment of any kind with the U.S. over the Far East situation...
Despite such notes of cheer, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which has frequently disagreed with the economic views of the FRB, remained cautious. While recovery is undoubtedly under way, said the New York bank, the vigor and steadiness of the uptrend is still uncertain...