Word: vigor
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...Maurras is very deaf, slightly feeble, and his voice whistles in the manner of a very old man, but his mind has lost none of its vigor nor his words their punch...
Commented the arch-Republican Herald Tribune: "The Republicans have named an able young political leader whose vigor and integrity stand beyond questioning. But knowledge of his convictions upon vital questions is extremely limited. A study of his spoken record reveals that he is against Communism and against the Roosevelt administration. What he is for still remains to be disclosed...
...late. For Tom Dewey's men were not calling but receiving. Harold Stassen's men sat dutifully and dourly around hotel lobbies, just in case a freak bolt of lightning should strike. John Bricker fought on, he spoke his familiar views with familiar vigor at a jampacked press conference, provided the only good bar for thirsty newsmen. His managers buttonholed and cajoled tirelessly. But hoopla was not enough in Chicago in June 1944. The Dewey nomination rolled...
...first geologist ever to be a Standard president, Eugene Holman made his most notable claim to the public's attention in April, when he calmly contradicted Oil Boss Harold Ickes' shrill predictions of an oil famine. Said Eugene Holman: If U.S. business has vigor, vision and a cooperative Government, the nation's oil should last for 1,000 years or more...
Great Layman. Chairman of the War Prisoners Aid Committee is John R. Mott, who at 79 is still the Y's most inspiring member. Last week, his physical vigor far from exhausted, strapping, square-jawed Dr. Mott was pursuing his favorite sports of boating and fishing in the Laurentian backwoods of Quebec...