Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more determinedly a President seeks power, the more he will be likely to bring vigor to his clerkship...
Watching the 43-year-old President's first, fast weeks in office, even John Fitzgerald Kennedy's sharpest critics had to admit that for better or worse he was bringing uncommon vigor to his presidential clerkship. His staff and his Cabinet had long since accepted him as an active boss who would not hesitate to order the toning down of a speech by tough-minded Admiral Arleigh Burke, to personally dress down an aide responsible for a critical news leak...
...Kennedy hoped. Faced with bureaucratic inertia, the unalterable decisions of predecessors and the provocation of crisis by men beyond his control, he was learning that a President, in Woodrow Wilson's phrase, barely retains the liberty "to be as big a man as he can." But in the vigor he brought to the early days of his clerkship, in the power he applied to the problems at hand, John Kennedy was clearly reaching for stature...
...this "progressive Republicanism" is a synonym for sound thought about international affairs, Advance could profit much from publishing more of it. It can scarcely, however, continue to call its odd political foam either vigorous or dynamic; there is no vigor in it, and therefore still no easily acceptable excuse for Advance's existence...
...vigor has not decreased," he said. "I am convinced that day by day my wisdom increases. But I am also satisfied that my stock of patience diminishes, and that is why I think the time has come." He was timing his retirement, he said, to enable his successor to be ready for the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi next November. He planned to step down in May, and already felt like a schoolboy "getting in sight of the holidays," or a "matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring again...