Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to supervise all advertising claims, it, too, came in for its share of criticism. The Congressmen accused FTC of failing "to approach the problems of false and misleading advertising with vigor and diligence," called its actions "weak and tardy." In answer, the FTC said that it had scheduled a conference of cigarette manufacturers to develop uniform standards for testing cigarettes...
...that peeresses will sit in Westminster, any talk about abolishing the House of Lords should be quickly quashed. By recognizing the other sex, the Lords have redemonstrated their vigor. Duchesses and marchionesses will probably inject a more humane note into arguments on hunting rights and capital punishment...
...President Nixon (45) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (76). Then, the smiles giving way to solemnity, he turned to the business at hand: his sixth State of the Union message. When he concluded, the nation and the world had heard a speech that was unusual not merely for the vigor of the man and his words, but because Ike had departed from customary procedure to propose stern solutions to principal national problems...
...coercive Communist-type garrison state. "The power which is generated by the voluntary effort of a free people cannot be equaled by the reluctant compliance of subject nations." The only choice for the U.S. is to generate the essential new power while also preserving and expanding the democratic vigor of the U.S. way of life and the growth of the domestic economy...
Reward from Moscow. Last week Dolci won another kind of victory. Praising the "incisive vigor" with which Dolci had depicted the "inhuman conditions" in Sicily, Radio Moscow gratuitously announced that "Peace Partisan" Dolci had won the Lenin (formerly Stalin) Peace Prize. Rome's La Giustizia, organ of the Social Democrats, promptly appealed to non-Communist Dolci to reject an award which "comes from the executioners of the workers in Hungary." Dolci did not even hesitate. "I shall always accept, from anywhere, gifts that help my mission of good works," he said. He announced that the $25,000 prize money...