Word: vigor
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...just gonna go home now," he said as I was about to close the door, "and do some of this," he said, holding a big fat reefer in front of me with a king-boy grin full of just enough vigor to get him home...
...like a lover. ("I realized," he recalls of one liaison, "that in moments of desperation people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited affair in the book, and it makes every page shine with a wit and vigor that belie the author's 73 years. Further illuminations are provided by Raphael Soyer's nostalgic drawings and paintings, every one of which is a complement to the text and a compliment to the reader...
...have derived tremendous satisfaction from the vigor and resolve of the members of the U.M.W. and their families. As the world moves inevitably toward total control by Big Business, it is heartening to know that it is still possible for workers of the U.S. to take some measure of control over their lives...
Down 3-1, it was a case of renewed vigor for only the next two minutes as Terrier Tony Meagher took the puck off Kevin O'Donoghue's stick and raced in only to be foiled by Hynes...
VERY FEW PEOPLE in this country are strictly middle-of-the-road, mainstream, or centrist. We are a land of independent thinkers, dissenters, regionalists, and everyone has a belief or two out of line with the political mean. When the press was more diverse, it catered to the vigorous variety of outlooks, and people felt that in an intangible way the newspaper or magazine of their choice 'belonged' to them. Now the press is viewed as dominating and monolithic, a part of a power triad with government and industry. Large sections of the population, the majority even--from moral conservatives...