Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that party was really incapable of straightening out" the abuses that were the products of its long tenure. In 1956, Ike predicted in a frankly partisan stance, the Republican platform will reflect "some reorientation" toward "those principles, policies and programs" that will help it in "rebuilding its strength and vigor...
...Poles find their own "road to Socialism," but the Bezpieka, Poland's security police, did its best to persuade Gomulka to confess to a formal charge of "lack of vigilance with regard to enemy agents." Instead of confessing, bullheaded Wladyslaw Gomulka counterattacked his interrogators with such vigor and skill that in the end the party had to abandon its plans to use him as the pièce de résistance in a show trial of Polish Titoists...
Canon Edward Carpenter of Westminster Abbey was more specific. "It seems to me that there is a great deal of vigor, vim and virility in American life, which expresses itself in devotion to a competitive free economy. The same spirit. I have a suspicion, displays itself, at least in the externals, in the religious sphere, which to an Englishman seems rather odd at times. On the lighter side, for example. I recall reading an advertisement in a newspaper which began. 'Is any church so air-conditioned cool as . . . ?' and members of the congregation were invited to share...
...people look at America, Ross pointed out that almost every person would have a different answer. He said, however, that there seemed to be a general feeling that Eisenhower should retain the presidency, but that there was considerable concern over Nixon, whom Ross characterized as "a man of more vigor and ability than political judgment...
...Amazing Dunninger (Wed. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is back again, portentously reading inner thoughts. Mike Stokey has also returned with CBS's Pantomime Quiz (Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.), on which a number of celebrities appear and play charades with infantile vigor. NBC's This Is Show Business (Tues. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is a panel show that has stumbled back on the air. An entertainer appears, goes through his act, then raises a show-business question to enable the panel to display its wit or wisdom. One commentator has already suggested that the name of the show...