Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring the dying art of salesmanship back to its robust prewar vigor, many a company thinks that the trick is to enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced...
...Vigor in Command. Cogny was liberated in April 1945, and at last, in 1946, he got his chance. Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny noticed Cogny's work on the French Army Reorganization Commission and called him over: "You! You there! I don't know you, but I want you to work for me. I like the way you think." Cogny rapidly became full colonel, regimental commander, executive secretary to the Defense Minister. De Lattre took Cogny to Indo-China, to London and Washington (where Cogny learned to speak English well). Cogny became De Lattre's disciple. After...
Though most outsiders know that Churchill is getting old, few realize just how old and feeble he has become. Those who meet him, impressed by his vigor, fail to realize that his states of mind and health are fitful, and that his bad periods border on ineffectiveness. He wants to retire soon, but his obsession is to do it as the Great Peacemaker. For long, he dreamed of a dramatic personal meeting with Stalin or Malenkov, a "parley at the summit." Now, Churchill has settled his hopes on a spectacular Asian compromise as a suitable valedictory gesture...
...months in office, Italy was beginning to feel different about the quiet but resolute onetime Interior Minister now its Prime Minister. The nation as a whole showed no likelihood as yet of echoing the enthusiasm of Caltagirone, but it was beginning to nod in pleased approval at the vigor and efficiency he has injected into its government...
Sorokin tackles his new work with the vigor of the young revolutionary who debated with Lenin and Trotsky. He has never lost the ability to support a cause he believes in, and does so in characteristically strong language. To his long list of writings, most of which have been translated into other languages, he has added several new volumes on altruism. Pointing proudly to a bulky, orange book on his desk, he remarked, "They are even writing books about my books...