Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paraded the 267 sleek yearlings for inspection. Most drew only a cursory glance. But others-the offspring of such favored sires as Hyperion, Polynesian and Nantallah-attracted knots of peering, prodding admirers. They were looking, explained Humphrey Finney, whose firm conducts the sale on a 5% commission, "for real vigor, for an impression of smartness and alertness, for the heart and the will...
...decades just before and just after the 20th century began, U.S. political cartooning enjoyed its golden age. At a time when there were some 500 more daily papers than today, most of them had staff cartoonists. They were predominantly men of strong convictions who drew with a brutal vigor that most of today's newspapers would hesitate to print. The best of them-the New York World's Rollin Kirby, whose "Mr. Dry" hastened Prohibition's repeal; the Post-Dispatch's corrosive Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; the Baltimore Sun's hard-hitting Edmund Duffy...
...does a company that has grown fat with long success recover its youthful thrust and vigor? For Chris-Craft Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of motorboats, the answer to this question was to be found last week in boatyards in Michigan and Florida. There, hidden under tarpaulins, lay the sleek 2j-H. aluminum cabin cruisers that Chris-Craft plans to put on the market next month, as well as prototypes of a racy fiber-glass runabout that the company may include in its 1962 line...
Still pursued with vigor is the crackdown on quack remedies, now under the Department of Investigation. This office does original investigations, cooperates with federal watchdog agencies, and often provides the evidence to get convictions...
...rise earlier this year, private, nonfarm housing starts in May are down to an annual rate of 1,276,000, v. 1,322,000 at the comparable stage of the 1958 recovery. The whole housing market, says the National Association of Home Builders, shows "a pervasive lack of vigor...