Word: vigorously
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JOHN RINGLING NORTH, at 48 the guiding spirit of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, is a burly, stubby man with an air of natural vigor about him. His thick eyebrows are black, the color of his face is high, and the flesh around his nose and jaw inclines to coarseness. He moves fast, with a short, brisk stride, and makes rapid gesticulations with his short-fingered, square-palmed hands when he talks. (He is not often silent.) There is nothing light or graceful about him when he stands chunkily on his own two feet...
Mexico. Its notable stability and expansive vigor may be due to the fact that it has emerged from the only true revolution ever to occur in Latin America. It is about as democratic as a one-party country can get, though probably a long way from the point where one party can peaceably yield power to another at the polls. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, the official government candidate, appears set to succeed President Miguel Alemán in the July elections...
Madame Olga Averino's song recital in Sanders Theatre Monray night was notable not so much for vocal quality as for interpretive excellence. Her voice, despite its tonal richness and vigor, has limitations. Particularly in the very high and very low registers, she seemed to show signs of strain as well as uncertain pitch...
...harsh limelight of publicity beats upon her as fiercely as it ever did during the years of the New Deal. Her vigor has prompted her friend & admirer, Anna Rosenberg, to call her the "jet plane with a fringe on top." But Mrs. Roosevelt has changed during her years alone. For one thing, in her appearance. Although she has aged visibly, more than one fascinated Frenchman, watching her speak this year in Paris, murmured: "Madame Roosevelt is becoming beautiful." This new look stems, in part, from an automobile accident which occurred one day in August 1946, as she was driving down...
...Protestantism is the wrong dragon today. Any lances that can be spared from the anti-Communist battle had better be tossed at other targets than Protestantism. A second lesson from current history might be derived from a comparison of the vitality and vigor of American Catholicism flourishing in a Protestant stronghold with the protected and overadvertised brand of Catholicism in Spain...