Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Rigors, More Vigor. Even without the formal proclamation, the President had most of the powers necessary for severe mobilization. Some had been given to him by Congress since Korea, others had been put on the books before or during World War II and remained in effect because the state of war with Germany and Japan has never been ended. The proclamation was intended to be a rallying cry at home and a notice to the rest of the world that the U.S. would once more rise to its calling as democracy's arsenal...
...Truman has reached toward mobilization in a more traditional fashion, through the regular Cabinet departments. So far in 1950, there are no home-front czars and caliphs grinding out firm and final decrees to a wage-stabilized, price-controlled, rationed public. But there is also a noticeable absence of vigor and purpose in the U.S. mobilization program, and in most of the men running it; there are no Charles E. Wilsons, "Bull" Jeffers, Bill Knudsens. These are the men who have been trying to catch up to galloping reality with a creeping mobilization...
Republicans lifted their voices with renewed vigor against Secretary Acheson. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy sounded a new dramatic note. The President should sanction the use of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops in Korea, he cried, or Congress should "immediately impeach" Harry Truman...
...recent special report on "Advising in Harvard College" attacks with admirable vigor and the roughness the biggest problem of present-day Harvard: depersonalized education...
...planning and practice. Conductor Mitropoulos took the podium, in front of the Philharmonic's strings. The Casadesus family sat down to their closely banked pianos, Robert on one side, facing Gaby and Jean. Then, radiating their pleasure, they played Bach's concerto with all of the vigor, grace, delicacy and perfect teamwork it deserves. Carnegie Hall gave them a Thanksgiving hand in return...