Word: vigor
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...Parks' vigor radically affected the next few years of Judge Allen's life. While she studied at Western Reserve and later at the University of Chicago and New York University for her law degree, she kept up her interest in the long battle for equal suffrage. In 1913 she received her degree and left NYU to practice law in her home state of Ohio. Now she was free to spend as much time as she wished campaigning for the sufragists, utilizing the strategies and tactics taught her by Mrs. Parks...
Senator Jackson was my personal choice for national chairman because he possessed those qualities of vigor, integrity, and a progressive outlook that I thought should characterize our party leadership...
...England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati as "Since-in-notty" in Cincinnati), reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind for historical anecdotes or classical allusions. Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior, he projects a kind of conviction and vigor even when talking of commonplace things in a commonplace...
Even those expressing approval of both candidates seemed detached from their favorite. Kennedy won approval for his intelligence, vigor, and overall "polish," but when asked to state their major reason for preferring the Senator, most voters either shrugged or said "I'm a Democrat." Nixon fans reacted similarly. While citing the Vice-President's experience and maturity as the most compelling factor affecting their vote, at least half of the voters preferring Nixon spoke more favorably about the Republican and unfavorably about the Democratic Party than they did about their own candidate...
...Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen...