Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County"). Isolationist as well as segregationist, he will take a stand against what he regards as pressing evils today in the U.S., e.g., foreign aid, overseas alliances, low tariffs, the breadth of the President's treaty-making powers. His views, his youthful vigor and his name will make Herman a new rallying point for the Democratic Party's Southern wing. Says Georgia Political Leader Roy V. Harris: "He is the man we are going to organize the South...
...variety and vigor, the kaleidoscope of the American landscape, and the people on it fascinate reporters-when we have time to think. But to Candidate Kefauver, one state is like another, one meeting the same as the next, one hand no different from the previous 5,000. Already, the traveling press is tired to a maddening degree of Kefauver-tired physically because the man puts in one 18-hour day after another with no more sign of human emotion or human fatigue than a robot; tired mentally because Estes bores them with his unvarying routine, his dull, platitudinous, primerlike speeches...
Drew suffered an attack of meningitis two years ago, made a good recovery, and returned to lead his party in the House of Commons this year with vigor and effectiveness. But the grinding routine and the constant frustration of bucking a dominant majority took their toll. Near exhaustion, Drew left the House in the closing days of this summer's session for an extended rest; twice he entered hospitals to try to regain his strength. Last week Drew's physician bluntly warned him that he could no longer carry his old responsibilities without serious danger to his health...
...jobs of the President make no allowance for failing physical vigor or the slowing up of mental powers," Truman said, "and although I had never had a serious illness in my life, I did not want to take any chances with the welfare of the country by lingering on in office...
...postwar army chief of staff, Juin ordered the repression of the first big Algerian rebellion in 1945 with a ruthless vigor that the French colonists still remember with admiration and the Algerians with bitterness. As Governor General of Morocco, his remedy for unrest was to propose the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. "Colonies are not made by virgins" was his motto. For years he had been the most stubborn opponent of all concessions, the loudest champion of the colonists' cherished contention that Algeria is a permanent part of France, the most violent critic of any suggestion of a separate...