Word: vigor
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Outstanding in a cast which displays no notable weaknesses are Jerry Ross and Betty Kean. Ross' dancing has all the vigor and strength of Gene Kelly and should take him into the big time within a year or two. Miss Kean's rendition of the "South America Take It Away" routine manages the difficult feat of being subdued, tasteful and sensational all at one time...
...have mutually confirmed one another in the notion that by the aid of the upshot of Christ's life and the 1,800 years (the consequences) they have become acquainted with the answer to the problem. By degrees, as this came to be accounted wisdom, all pith and vigor was distilled out of Christianity, the tension of the paradox was relaxed, one became a Christian without noticing it. ... What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would be most embittered by if one were contemporary with it. ... Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware...
Commenting on the New Lecture Hall speech of Jan Masaryk, Benes hailed the diplomat's report of his nation's post-war vigor as a "sign of the continuous striving for progress" which he said has characterized the republic since its rebirth...
...effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...
...Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at The Hague in 1915, served on Henry Ford's abortive peace mission in 1916, later lost her Wellesley professorship for pacifism. As the WILPF's honorary president, she still crusades for its principles. She explains her vigor by a quotation: "My grandfather used to say that an old woman is as tough as a boiled owl." Recovering from bronchial asthma in a Wellesley hospital last week, she was delighted at the "genuine honor-my friends have been trying to get it for me for a long time...