Word: vigor
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...soon as she passed the lastsheltering headland of Chesapeake Bay, the presidential yacht Williamsburg ran into heavy weather. For two days and two nights as she skirted the storm-buffeted Carolina capes, she rolled and pitched and yawed with sickening vigor. The President, who had chosen a sea route to Key West as a gesture of friendliness to the Navy, surrendered to the unfriendliness of the sea and the built-in crankiness of his personal ship; he took to his berth, stopped eating...
...first movement, full of vigor, speed and spirit, gave listeners a slice of "bread & butter"; there was a broad theme to hold on to, although in periods of paraphrase and pyrotechnics it sometimes slithered out of the average listener's grasp. In the second movement, an andantino "interlude," the violin sang a beautifully simple song. Composer Schuman split the furious pace of the last movement with a long brassy chorale...
Approved Outlet. Murdock saw five advantages in encouraging the young folks (with "social control") to let their glands be their guides: 1) less guilt, hence less psychoneurosis; 2) an approved outlet for sexual vigor when it is at its height; 3) establishment of normal heterosexual habits; 4) understanding of the role of sex-"Relief from sexual frustration is a very inadequate motive for marriage"; 5) prevention of marriage between sexual incompatibles...
...Curator of the Hermanie Museum, said when the gift was announced: "This gift from a member of a family which has done much for the University will give security and continuity to the word of the Germanic Museum and will enable the museum to develop its activities with renewed vigor...
...Curator of the Germanic Museum, said when the gift was announced; "This gift from a member of a family which has done much for the University will give security and continuity to the work of the Germanic Museum and will enable the museum to develop its activities with renewed vigor...