Word: vigors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools should continue with vigor their programs for giving young citizens a clear understanding of the principles of the American way of life...
Pope Pius XII's step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...
...Sneezing, like hiccups, warts and baldness, is richly endowed with popular superstitions and remedies. Aristotle considered a sneeze evidence of the brain's vigor. Ancient Persians believed it to be the draft from the Evil One's wings. Hindus think a sneezer is expelling an evil spirit. Old wives' cures include pulling hairs from the nose, reciting the alphabet backwards, shooting off a revolver...
...European entries had variety and vigor too. France's Ossipe Zadkine contributed Menades-fragmentary fleeing figures that seemed closer to cubist painting than to most sculpture. Russian-born Jacques Lipchitz, who now lives in Greenwich Village, submitted Sacrifice, a handsomely ugly bronze of a man knifing a rooster; the disturbing thing about Sacrifice was that, stared at a while, the man began to look like a rooster, the rooster like...
Superman & Rosie O'Grady. Berle's own gifts for TV should be plain even to his most diehard detractors. His early start as an entertainer has given him a unique combination of talents: he has an old trouper's know-how and a newcomer's vigor. To a grueling weekly job, he brings a boundless appetite for work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist...