Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prolongation of the school years, argues British Sociologist Frank Musgrove, is partly a ploy by the adult world to keep the young out of competition as long as possible, for, he asserts, the "mature of Western society" regard the young "with hatred." With people living longer and retaining their vigor into advanced age, there is certainly less disposition by the mature to make way-although "hatred" seems overstating the case. Still, the diagnosis may yet prove accurate, unless the older generation keeps its cool about the young...
Lyndon Johnson, who has been the target of much of the protest, issued an unwontedly graceful statement allowing that dissent was a sign of political vigor and would help establish that the basic U.S. policy in Viet Nam had been framed and tested in a climate of "free discussion and openness." The President, while emphatically affirming the right to protest, reminded the protesters that their efforts could only strengthen the conviction in Hanoi and Peking that the U.S. is so riven by internal dissension that in time it would be forced to quit the war. "The fact remains," Johnson said...
...suggesting that we lightly cast aside our cherished Southern traditions," Valentine likes to say. "I am suggesting that we throw them aside with great vigor wherever they violate the spirit of the Bible." His objections to segregation are firmly religious. "We need to abolish racial discrimination in our country and our churches not because of a clause in the Constitution or because of the Communist challenge, nor yet because we need the votes of the watching world. We need to conquer race prejudice because it is a sin against almighty God and a rejection of the precious blood of Jesus...
...spoken at many others. At the United Nations there are many instances when the majority of speakers addressing the Assembly on a particular problem do so in French. I can assure you that the French-speaking communities all over the world have no reason to despair as to the vigor of the French language. A final point: you fail to mention that in Canada, French is the native and only tongue of more than 3,000,000 French Canadians...
...apparently made a telling impression on the Philippine electorate. Then too, Filipinos prefer new faces in politics, have never elected a President to two full terms in the islands' 19 years of independence. But Marcos' flair as a campaigner may well have caused the landslide. Brimming with vigor, he stumped through virtually every barrio in the archipelago and delighted thousands of voters by warbling duets with his beauteous wife Imelda, the Miss Manila...