Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home is Administration's bland record on consumerism, the appointment last year of Richard O. Simpson, 44, to head the new Consumer Product Safety Commission caused no great expectations. But Simpson confounded the skeptics by taking on the job of protecting the public against dangerous merchandise with surprising vigor and independence. The CPSC has just raised loud protests from traditionalists by banning all firecrackers beginning next week - thus muting the Fourth of July. The commission is now scrimmaging with the management of the National Football League over whether to bar artificial turf in stadiums; falling on plastic turf, players...
...speech ran on like an early epistle of Saint Paul, full of the vigor of liberal martyrdom. I never did jump...
...experience seems to have occurred while he was gazing at a portrait of St. Sebastian, body pierced with arrows. Years later, with typically gorgeous effrontery, he posed for a photo in which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action...
Dean Whitlock said yesterday that Kane was "a man of tremendous integrity." "He had a very friendly, personal approach--not show-offy or egotistical or arrogant," Whitlock said. "He was just a quiet, helpful, nice guy with a real vigor and concern about people...
Tangible Results. Troy's strength as a muckraker rests not in his prose but in his grasp of Oklahoma affairs and his vigor in finding new facts. He talks easily on such matters as the concentration of private wealth in the hands of relatively few Oklahomans and the amount of state tax paid by oil companies in 1973. While doing legwork in the state capital, Troy is a one-man information clearinghouse. He gets tips from other newsmen whose papers are cool to exposes. Legislators and their aides regularly quiz him on state issues...