Word: vim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boland and Mr. Johnson, prac tical and earthy men, saw their job as getting out the vote and to their job they swung with vim...
...This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy of the week was whether Sop-with's Tomahawk could beat Vanderbilt's Vim...
With business-like efficiency, Vanderbilt and his well-drilled crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last...
...repeated that the reason she had not gone further into the case of Harry Bridges was that she was waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the parallel case of Joe Strecker, which Solicitor-General Jackson was about to prosecute for her with real vim (see p. 14). She expressed awe at the immense power she wields over aliens, as their investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge. Because of this, she said, she always tries to act "with scrupulous fairness." She said: "I have entire faith and confidence that Congress will protect me and secure my rights and reputation...
...thinking of running for Governor. Back from the War, he went into partnership with seasoned Philip P. Steptoe of Clarksburg, soon was earning $40,000 a year or better in corporate practice. As the money rolled in, he began to put on weight, lose his hair but not his vim, ease up on poker and take to golf. He could afford to play politics without running for office. By picking his candidates after the primaries, he steered clear of West Virginia's bitter Democratic feuds, thus stands well with such enemies as Senators Matthew M. Neely and anti...