Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate on the floor of Commons, where his parliamentary wit has been sharpened through long tenure in the front benches. In his first bud-get message as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1951, for example, he presented complex economic data underlying a major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner for the opposition in the locust years since 1951, he has made constant use of his mastery of repartee in Parliament...
...when he opened his eyes they lighted the house "like the sun." Fearing that Noah was really the child of "the Watchers, the Holy Ones or the fallen angels," Lamech spoke to his sister-wife about it in no uncertain terms, and she in turn replied "with great vigor," reminding Lamech of the intimate details of Noah's conception...
...even though the U.S. had stood by its right to independent action in areas, e.g., Latin America and Formosa, outside NATO's sphere. In sum, declared Dulles after his talk with Ike, out of the NATO meeting had come "a new sense of fellowship" and "renewed evidence of vigor and unity" in the Atlantic community...
Less recognized, but equally true, is the fact that Hopper, at 74, expresses the present moment of American life with all the vigor and attachment of youth. The tradition he practices has nothing to do with convention. It involves no set approach, and never stoops to slavish copying. Hopper seldom sketches on the spot; he has not painted an oil direct from nature in 15 years. What he shares with the other great realists in American painting history is a heartfelt regard for the here and now, together with an overmastering desire to understand it intimately and express it clearly...
...virtually impossible to find in any individual. They comprise: literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his fellows; and physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports...