Word: vigor
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...other hand, cuts loose from D'Oyly-Carte's version to create an interestingly stiff and proper Sir Joseph. Paul Sperry, while a bit awkward with the spoken word, has a cheerful and booming voice that sounds just fine. And Elizabeth Kalkhurst does Josephine with feeling and restrained vigor, if not animation...
...exhibition covers a great deal of ground, roughly the northwestern third of South America, and a vast extent of time-27 centuries ending with the Spanish conquest in 1534. It includes clay pots and statuettes of extraordinarily grotesque vigor, and others that are outstanding for their subtle realism. A hat and a wall-hanging made entirely of feathers brighten the display. There is a poncho with a checkerboard pattern, and many cloths so elaborately embroidered that the eye cannot be brought to unravel their designs. Rock crystal, jade, silver, ivory and turquoise jewelry conjure up court scenes of exotic splendor...
...persons ip some states, with ten or eleven in others), and 2) high medical costs (some 10% of American families spend more than $500 a year for medical care, and the national average is $200). Said the message: "While continuing to reject Government regulation of medicine, we shall with vigor and imagination continously search out by appropriate means, recommend, and put into effect new methods of achieving better health for all of our people...
...claim that my administration was 100% free of graft. No administration-democratic or dictatorial-could ever make that sweeping claim, just as no nation could truthfully boast that it is free of crime. What a government can and should do is to combat graft or crime with all the vigor possible under the circumstances in which it holds office; and, if TIME should care to look up the actual record, you will have to agree that I was the Cuban executive who made the most consistent and the most fundamental efforts to curb laxity, fraud and disorganization in the management...
...waterfront-which was something like asking a tattooed man to wash that sailing ship off his chest-and took its charter away when it failed (TIME, Oct. 5). The Federation set up a competing longshoremen's union, sent gangs of tough A.F.L. men along the piers to add vigor to its organizing efforts, and began wooing dock workers from their old union...