Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later years, after he had raised his people up, he decided to ease his dictatorship. He brought his ambassador home from France, ordered him to head an opposition, ordered his own sister to join it. The new Liberal Republican Party was so polite at first that Kemal demanded more vigor; when it became more vigorous he abolished it. "Let the people leave politics for the present," he said. "Let them interest themselves in agriculture and commerce. For ten or 15 years more I must rule...
Author Treece's story, which gallops along at the pace of a western movie, is full of soothsayers, blood oaths and hoary legends. Its best scenes catch the rude vigor of the times, e.g., the annual ceremony of a human sacrifice to the sun god, in which a red-haired youth chosen by the druids has his heart pierced with a mistletoe stake; Claudius' surprise weapon, a cavalry of elephants and camels, stampeding the horses of the Celtic charioteers into snorting, neighing chaos...
...germanium transistor, now five years old, has reached a ripe, mature age as electronic gadgets grow. But, asked the Philco Corp.'s Director of Research Donald G. Fink, "Is it a pimpled adolescent, now awkward, but promising future vigor? Or has it arrived at maturity, full of languor, surrounded by disappointments...
...creative talent seems to decline after 40 Dr. Lehman does not know. No doubt, he says, there are many contributing causes-a decline in physical vigor; impairment of hearing, vision, and muscular coordination; more concern with practical problems of making a living, instead of reaching for the stars. Dr. Lehman, at any rate, is an exception to his rule. He rates Age and Achievement as his own greatest achievement...
...brief history of Canadian art is much less known than that of art in the U.S., but nearly as respectable. Reflecting a stable, rural, sparsely populated land, Canadian art has been even more provincial than U.S. painting, and full of vigor. A sizable show at Canada's National Gallery in Ottawa brings together some of the nation's best canvases. The color pages, opposite and overleaf, are a sampling of the exhibition...