Word: vim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...78th Congress, after the exciting days of its birth and its blessing by Franklin Roosevelt, got to work on Capitol Hill. Its future now looked a little clearer. This was a Congress full of vim & vinegar, eager to get on with the war, busting to assert its independence, and judging by the temper of many members, eager to throw its weight in constructive rather than destructive fashion. Of party politics there would be plenty, but each side had a shrewd notion that the successful way to make political hay was to beat the other in getting on with an effective...
Crammed from curtain to curtain with the antics of an ex-heavyweight champ, tuneful songs of a Harvard man, colorful dance arrangements and high-class special ties, "Hi Ya, Gentlemen" has come to town with a vim, vigor and verve making it a serious contender for the title of best musical comedy of the year. Incidentally, it proves what every sports-writer has always known: Max Baer is at heart the clown, not the fighter, and is better off by far in the former role...
...Harold S. Vanderbilt's Vim: the King's Cup, No. 1 U. S. yachting trophy; defeating two other twelve-meter sloops, Van S. Merle-Smith's Northern Light and Fred T. Bedford's Nyala, over a 17 ½-mile course; off Marblehead, Mass. Though it was the first victory for two-year-old Vim, it was the seventh time Skipper Vanderbilt had won the cup put up in 1912 by England's George...
...conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week in a mock petition-to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito-which was circulated in New York...