Word: vigor
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...year-old statesman made a slight concession to the enemy last June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...
Battle Ground. On the hustings last week, ex-Governor Melvin Ernest Thompson shouted himself hoarse with a vigor that astounded voters who remembered his fumbling efforts two years ago. In reply, young Herman Talmadge, showing his red suspenders, mocked the people who said his rival was a changed man. It reminded him, said Talmadge, of a contrite drunk coming home to his wife. Countered Thompson: "I know of no man in Georgia who is a greater authority on a man coming home drunk than the present governor...
...small group of novels dealing with such themes this week was added The Encounter, the story of a priest's harsh but successful struggle against spiritual pride. Its author, Baltimore-born Crawford Power, an architect turned novelist, writes of priests, nuns and parishioners with both vigor and delicacy...
...Pound's essay is more than the customary diatribe by a self-exiled literary rebel against America's cultural bourgeoisie. Years before he turned renegade to his nation to back Fascism, Pound had a profound sense of America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally tender of its youth ("America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation . . .") and he could grow lyrical, in his strangely dissonant way, over a New York crowd-"a crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd...
...London is to accelerate the mobilization of ... vast untapped moral and material resources in the free world. We must develop those reserves to the best of our ability. We should be doing so even if international Communism did not exist. As things are, we must do so with utmost vigor...