Word: vigor
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...State Department was buzzing with vim & vigor last week, and its collective face was wreathed in smiles of jolly good fellowship. Painters slapped pistachio green on the drab cream walls of State's drafty old home on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. A panting porter lugged away Cordell Hull's cherished rubber plant. Under scaffolds and around carpet-menders, platinum-topped Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius bustled like a busy host at a party. He invited the press to the swearing-in of five of his six new top aides,* whom he fondly calls his team...
...Chiang Kaishek, China's perennial man of the year. The Japs cut his country in two. The recall of General Joseph W. Stilwell brought down on the Generalissimo's head the most searing criticism he had ever suffered from the U.S. But he strove to put new vigor into his regime and his war effort. Neither Chiang nor China was beaten...
Little-known but skilled players create with extraordinary vigor and depth the portraits painted by the author. "The Hasty Heart" is a play of exceptional emotional import, of brilliant and careful character portrayal...
...five servicemen, says he, are "valiant young pagans" who "know little and care less about Christianity. . . . They will come back sure that the churches have small influence on American life . . . ready to do little more than to give those churches a chance to prove that they have life, vigor, sincerity, pertinency...
...Broom Into the top councils of the aged New Deal came young Ed Stettinius as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State, full of vigor and high resolution. The news of the new week was the speed, distinction and determination of his attack on the organization of the dusty old State Department...