Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballplayer disintegrated, subtly but suddenly, into a jerky, rubber-faced caricature of all the rough diamonds of the diamond since the days of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Something seemed to go wrong with his eyes, and he was seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...
...late 1860s, just about the time Jesse James was blossoming in the Midwest, the four Reno boys were shooting up the area with a vigor that set a pattern for all outlaw brotherhoods to come. Though sadly neglected by folklore and Hollywood, the Reno boys were more original than the James or Younger brothers; they were the first to stage a train robbery in the U.S. (near Seymour, Ind. on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad), and once they burned an entire town (Rockford, Ind.) just so they could buy up its land for a bargain...
...fell. At midweek a wave of selling struck the market just before noon, drove some stocks down as much as six points. Before that day's close, the market got back some of its losses, and it held steady to week's end. But its old, heady vigor seemed to be gone...
...month before his death in 1939, Irish Poet William Butler Yeats wrote to a friend: "And I do nothing but write verse." It was not the lyric verse that once sang: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"; now it had a marblelike quality, a classic vigor and clarity that most younger poets envied. A few months earlier, at 73, he had written his epitaph...
...either routine or intellectualized. For one thing, there are laws of libel which would hamstring any American critic . . . You can't say a particular person gives a perfunctory performance-period. You have to say he or she, in your opinion, didn't give it the necessary vigor and feeling, or in some other way get around a flat verdict on a matter which in Britain is taken as reflection on character...