Word: vigor
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...your Artzy And I think he's quite a guy; His stuff has vim and vigor Which with impact hits...
Their bid was turned down then, and it was not until last spring that the drive reopened with renewed vigor. For then, the Boston Arena, site of Harvard games and practices for 40 years, was sold to a New York business group which planned on reconverting the building for commercial purposes...
...since by your so-called reasoning we are already 'diseased'. But it must be the Law School and the legal profession that is to be protected. It is hard to believe that the editors of the CRIMSON have taken such a position for they must know that the vigor of our democracy stems from and depends on the American people having a opportunity to examine and choose from varying ideas and ideas. I was also under the impression that the CRIMSON editors had sough confidence in that ideas and a low enough estimate of the ideas which they appear...
...later years, after he had raised his people up, he decided to ease his dictatorship. He brought his ambassador home from France, ordered him to head an opposition, ordered his own sister to join it. The new Liberal Republican Party was so polite at first that Kemal demanded more vigor; when it became more vigorous he abolished it. "Let the people leave politics for the present," he said. "Let them interest themselves in agriculture and commerce. For ten or 15 years more I must rule...
Author Treece's story, which gallops along at the pace of a western movie, is full of soothsayers, blood oaths and hoary legends. Its best scenes catch the rude vigor of the times, e.g., the annual ceremony of a human sacrifice to the sun god, in which a red-haired youth chosen by the druids has his heart pierced with a mistletoe stake; Claudius' surprise weapon, a cavalry of elephants and camels, stampeding the horses of the Celtic charioteers into snorting, neighing chaos...