Word: vigorousness
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...when these strange men in dungarees read poetry to unmuted jazz, or steal cars and drive to Denver, or just “burn, burn, burn, like a fabulous yellow roman candle” it is with a vigor which marks the rest of us as dead, a bad penny vitality and a grubby crucifixion which make lectures and Haze-Bick existentialism seem extremely square...
...major reason for an extension of parietal hours is that it would increase the physical vigor of the undergraduate. The University is defeating the whole, healthful purpose of Daylight Saving Time in maintaining the present regulations. Hours should be extended to ten o’clock to enable students to take advantage of the Cambridge Spring...
...main business lobby, said what happened at Telekom was "reprehensible and disgusting," comparing it to the "methods of the East German Stasi" secret police. "This is not capitalism," he said. "It's not my understanding of the market economy." If a captain of industry condemns Deutsche Telekom with such vigor, the judgment of the average German is not likely to be any more forgiving...
...personal physician in a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon. But Eckstein said he found no evident signs of medical problems that would prevent McCain from running the country. "We can find nothing in his history that would preclude him from serving as president of the United States with vigor," he said...
...with its greatest, most poignant force when a sequel to a beloved series is finally unveiled; recall the shrugs and recriminations at the arrival of The Phantom Menace. The Indy franchise never reached the heights of Skywalker mania. It was just (just!) a trilogy that both tapped the innocent vigor of old B-movie serials and turned them into sophisticated thrill machines. Raiders and its progeny were fun without being facetious; they moved with the speed and power of an Indy right hook, relentlessly piling one cool action trope on another. And at their heart was a hero who wore...