Word: vigor
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...University will uphold commitment to academic freedom with all the vigor it can,” Summers told the Faculty at the meeting’s close...
...come to lend a hand clearing up the mosque, which has been rocketed by the U.S. on the grounds that it was an Ansar command post. None of the helpers looked a day under 70, and although they were picking and pulling at the mountain of rubble with vigor, they were not making much headway. They did not mind being interrupted...
...Kurdish official indicated that I should meet him around the bend in the road, out of sight of the checkpoint. He drove around, picked me up and we barreled down the rutted road. The vigor with which he charged deep potholes make me fear for my neck and his axle, but the driving lasted only a short time. The Iraqis, apparently unimpressed by the U.S. bombing raids, opened up once again with mortars. My guide and I took cover behind and earthen bank. "Very good air strikes," he said with what I took to be irony...
...primary night, however, the old Kennedy vigor returned. His suite at the Ambassador Hotel filled with well-wishers, and as the results turned his way, campaign workers began "laughing and dancing and hugging one another," recalled his aide, former pro-football player Roosevelt Grier. Around midnight Kennedy went downstairs and delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America...
...latest attacks commenced at around 8 p.m. local time when U.S. forces unleashed an intense 10-minute bombardment that hit government ministry buildings. Baghdad's anti-aircraft defenses responded, though with less vigor than they had during the opening hours of the first Gulf War. U.S. ground forces also joined the battle, as a group of light armored vehicles from the Marine First Division engaged Iraqi forces just over the Kuwati border...