Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instinct of the President and his advisers is correct to the extent that investment must be encouraged if the economy is to regain its vigor. The problem here is how to place capital in the hands of new entrepreneurs, much of whose investment will be in plant and whose dollars therefore will have the "multiplier" effect described by Keynes. (It is assumed--necessarily, through perhaps inaccurately--that such men exist, either independent of the large corporations, or within them, but anxious to be free of them...
Down in the Diary. Yet, seven weeks before the 1952 election, Hughes became a speechwriter for Republican Eisenhower. Why, believing as he did, did he take the job? Hughes's reason is circuitous: "I believed the essential vigor of the nation's two-party system to stand in clear and present danger . . . In 1952, for the life of the two-party system, it was 'time for a change.' But I thought this change essential-paradoxically-less by reason of the faults so loudly imputed to Democrats, too long in power, than by reason of the political...
...Secretary of the Interior, Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, who "not only moves forward with vigor, but does it in a manner that is not offensive...
...hour ultimatum to destroy all snowmaking machinery, and the Secretary of State makes his now-famous comment: "We're cheek to cheek, and I think the other fellow needs a shave." Concludes The New Yorker piece: "The 'shave' was administered-decisively, effectively, and with vigor...
...botanist, Sir Eric conducted research on hybrid vigor, plant ecology, and the growth and nutrition of duck weed. After the war, he wrote a series of papers on the growth of leaves...