Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman writer, he sometimes allows his language to partake of sexual stereotyping. Describing two characters in her novel The Custom of the Country, for example, he writes: Marvell also, as it were, embodies Edith's feminine side; Moffatt her masculine side, her immense energy, her decisiveness in action, the vigor of her ironic humor. Later, he again refers to what he terms Wharton's "masculine vein of satiric humor...
...head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. His assignment was to dismantle the organization and its "Great Society" programs, but before he could, Nixon made him a top White House aide in 1970. Three years later the President named Rumsfeld U.S. Ambassador to NATO, where he worked with characteristic vigor, although his chores were largely routine and ceremonial...
...relentless hungering after the lights of Broadway. When Minahan is on stage--which is most of the show--he is absolutely riveting; the excitement he projects virtually swallows up all the other characters. It's an amazing feat, especially since Minahan, though a capable dancer, sings with more vigor than melody. In the end, though, the supreme conviction he brings to his role is what counts...
...wide open for interpretation. "Literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character, and instincts to lead and to take an interest in his fellows; physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports." None of these are exactly standardized, nor have the will's executors standardized their definition of requisite qualities. Still, one thing is fairly clear about the will: Cecil Rhodes was not thinking of women...
...second half began as closely contested as the first. Hitting and hustling with spirited vigor, both teams traded possession of the ball as scoring attempts repeatedly failed...