Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly surprised at Bella's decision. The onetime Congresswoman, loser to Daniel Patrick Moynihan for a Democratic nomination in last year's U.S. Senate race, had been announcing her announcement for weeks. Still, when she decided to make the toss official, Bella, 56, announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin' to go," she declared to supporters at her kickoff rally. "I'm good from top to bottom and every other part in between." Most Gotham handicappers are willing to believe her: Bella is rated a strong primary threat to Mayor Abraham Beame...
...vote against Labor rather than for Begin, even though the strong-willed little Polish immigrant has long been recognized as one of the country's most dynamic politicians. Begin suffered a heart attack (complicated by pneumonia) at the beginning of the eleven-week campaign, but he displayed surprising vigor when he appeared before hundreds of cheering supporters last week in Tel Aviv at Likud headquarters?known as "the Castle"?to claim victory. He was asked, as Premier-designate, what his plans were for the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. "What occupied territories?" Begin roared...
...only housing starts, but some other key indicators last week showed that the economy is surging into spring with the vigor of a baseball rookie. Despite the bitter winter, total U.S. output of goods and services rose 5.2% during the first three months of the year, up smartly from the 2.6% rate in the last quarter of 1976. Inflation slowed; consumer prices in March rose at an annual rate of 7.4%, v. 12.7% in February and 10% in January. March industrial production took its biggest jump in 19 months-1.4%-and personal income scored its largest increase in almost...
...still sells .twice as many copies as Le Point, circulation has slumped by some accounts from 614,000 in 1972 to about 555,000 today. Goldsmith's first priority at L'Express is to reverse the decline in circulation by restoring the journal's credibility and vigor. "My arrival liberates the magazine to be able to criticize," he says...
...wrote a poem that won the notice of the Academic Française. At the age of 83 he died, shortly after composing his last Alexandrine. During the decades between he came to think of himself as Olympic-an apt sobriquet, for Victor Hugo lived life with the vigor and ego of a Greek god. Once, when Hugo was about 80, his teen-age grandson found the old man making love to a young laundress. "Look," said Hugo proudly, "that is what they call genius...