Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government would sign an irrevocable contract to buy at least two-thirds of its Nicaro ore needs from Freeport through 1978. General Services Administrator Franklin Floete turned down the offer, called on Lawyer Ira D. Beynon, 62, to clean up the Nicaro dispute. Beynon attacked the chore with vigor. Testified Freeport Sulphur's President Langbourne Williams: "Mr. Beynon began to call us names, to threaten us with congressional investigations. He said, 'You reduce [the ore price] or I'll shut this plant down. We don't need your...
...that can be made is that her outstanding performance makes Thomas Myers' Alexis look poor in comparison while in reality he is not that bad. He looks like an ill-at-ease student at a military academy, an appearance not suited to a part that calls for somewhat more vigor than he is able to muster. In his duets with Miss Humphreys she consistently steals the scene...
Stirling's detailed, if often careless book proves her a writer of astonishing vigor, and as rare a bird as any to undergo a biographer's taxidermy...
...unfazed by the disaffection of one of France's few remaining supporters in North Africa, promptly made matters worse. Racked by lumbago, Gaillard painfully hauled himself to the National Assembly, won his tenth vote of confidence (286 to 147) by promising to pursue the Algerian war with relentless vigor and to dispatch 28,000 more French troops to join the 500,000 already fighting the Algerian rebels. While he politicked, Gaillard left U.S. Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley cooling their heels, thus deliberately stalling their "good offices" mission to settle the rankling dispute between...
...since he succeeded the late great Field Marshal Alexander Papagos as Premier of Greece, ruggedly handsome Constantine Karamanlis, 50, had infused the Greek government with a new spirit. Son of a Macedonian schoolteacher, Karamanlis still bore traces of the simple manners of the north, displayed an honesty and a vigor alien to the wealthy Athenians who generally dominate Greek politics. Under his driving leadership, the gross national product jumped 9% during 1956-57, and the Greek farmer prospered as never before...