Word: vigor
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...tastes. Healey had just been re-elected as the deputy leader of the Labor Party. Meanwhile, at a fish and chips place a few blocks away, Tony Benn, Healey's unsuccessful leftist challenger, sipped Coke from a can and ruminated on the sudden show of vigor from the party's moderates that had given the radicals their first setback in two years...
...presumption that audiences think fat is funny. They may, like James Coco, grow "tired of getting scripts that were all fat jokes." They may, like Charlotte Rae, find it "depressing" to be offered lots of characters specifically described as fat. And offstage they worry as much about health, vigor and appearance as the well rounded in other walks of life. But in a notoriously unstable business, fat actors and actresses have a trademark that steadily gets them jobs...
Jefferson was nearly 66 when he stepped down from the presidency-the point at which Dumas Malone begins this sixth and final volume of his awesomely thorough biography, Jefferson and His Time. But he remained a man of uncommon vigor...
After the sea and the land, the air and outer space became America's frontiers. And so they remain. What happens in future international struggles in politics and economics will depend in an important way on U.S. ascendancy in air and space, the vigor of the industry that produces new machines and the vision of a President in regulating peaceful transport, nurturing exploration and employing new weapons...
...Singer writes with the vigor of a man arriving at his prime. It seems impossible to think of the Nobel laureate as anything but a master of "impassioned narrative art," for which he was cited...