Word: vigor
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...shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every word with the bony fingers...
Smoker campaigns are noted for their vigor. Last year, the campaigns were so vigorous that several posters disappeared...
...that some scenes move almost as leisurely as a discussion at the U.N. But the picture fills the eye with the grandeur of its well-chosen locations and the flashing charm of Mexico's Actress Marques, who looks something like a brunette Faye Emerson. And it gains vigor now & then from the hairy-chested direction of William (The Oxbow Incident) Wellman, notably in the roisterous humor of a drunken free-for-all, shots of horses charging and churning through mountain snowdrifts, and the unsqueamish thunk of arrows hitting human hide...
Because it relaxed and failed to endorse the most powerful candidates possible, the Cambridge Civic Association must take most of the blame for this. If it does not regain the vigor necessary to keep Cambridge voters interested in good government, the next election will be even more disastrous...
...team that's playing over its head just cannot absorb a bad break like that. Thereafter the Harvard squad lost some of its electrifying vigor and the Tigers shook off their sense of shock...