Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look Behind the Mask." "Remember," said Harry, "this is Ike's record just as much as it is Ezra Taft Benson's. Secretary Benson is merely the President's hired man." His voice taking on the old whistle-stop vigor, he gave 'em more: "This is one of the most amazing records of political betrayal I have ever seen in all my years of public life . . . In 1952 General Eisenhower went all over the country handing out promises about what he would do for the farmers ... At Brookings, S. Dak. he said: ' The Republican Party...
...muscular political forces would then slug it out. Moderate Lubell wants the moderates to win-but not until there has been a good fight. "The continuing fight-not sweetness and light-is the hallmark of the American democracy. The hidden strength of our democracy springs from the very vigor with which we battle ourselves into unity . . . The time to worry about this country is not when we are battling among ourselves, for it is then that our democracy functions best. The time to worry is when all is 'moderation...
When a Republican Administration came to Washington in 1952, the correspondents put fresh vigor into their classic role as people's monitor over the Government. The publishers had overwhelmingly supported the Eisenhower candidacy, but they were not in Washington doing the prying and prodding that go with the day's work of the good reporter. It was the working press that kept asking what the President would do about Joe McCarthy (and what McCarthy would do about the President), whether "Engine Charlie" Wilson was going to sell his General Motors stock,* or if Republican appointees were trying...
...first mistakes, Eugene Meyer, known affectionately to his staff as "Butch," worked wonders. He built a national bureau to cover the Government, patterned after the Washington bureaus of the big Manhattan dailies. He developed an editorial page that, under Felix Morley, began at once to show insight and vigor, gain national prestige. By 1946, circulation had more than trebeled...
Demagogic extremes in Washington and elsewhere have emphasized and heightened, I think, a widespread but vague public concern about the health and vigor of our free institutions. It is reassuring that this concern no longer proceeds on the naive assumption that our difficulties may be remedied by passing new laws or by mechanical tinkering with governmental commissions...