Word: vim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saddle. In Amherst, Mass., 94 year-old Mrs. Lois Mitchell, horseback riding for the first time in 70 years, had a complaint: "I had to whip him to make him trot . . . Bicycling is more fun because I can put more vim into...
James Zellerbach, 57, a slight, balding Pacific Coast paper & pulp man (Crown Zellerbach), had bustled into Italy nine months ago, an'EGA chief brimming with vim, vigor and the proverbial vitality of American business. Left-wing Italian newsmen heckled and flustered him. Government ministers, explaining land redistribution, stared when he cut them short with "I'm not interested in politics. I want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans...
...vim and vigor displayed by the Engineers in the opening period temporarily baffled the varsity and accounted for a 5 to 4 edge briefly enjoyed by MIT. But in the second and third periods the Crimson outskated, outpassed, outshot, and outwitted MIT, scored nine goals and would have scored more had not Scott Connor played so well in the Tech goal. Connor had an unofficial total of 42 saves...
...sheer misuse of apparent purpose, perhaps the "night crawler" deserves special mention. No one knows what this young lady does with herself during the daytime, but like the stars, she comes out at night. Fall of vim and vigor, she easily eclipses the she-skiers, and ogles all tired but available males...
Found: Henry VIM's missing iron pants-the ones that match the iron jacket on display in the Tower of London. Generations of royal armorers had hunted them; they turned up standing under a less glorious top, in a shadowy hall of Scrivelsby Court in Lincolnshire. Historical note: lusty Henry had not always looked like Charles Laughton-the pants' waistline measured only 34 inches...