Word: vim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Pacific (Magna Releasing Corp. and 20th Century-Fox), as a Broadway musical, had so much vim and vinegar that it would be almost impossible to make a bad movie out of it-but the moviemakers appear to have tried...
George Gallup's strolling statisticians, just returned from a doorbell-ringing examination of the religion of U.S. and British Christians, last week gave their diagnosis: in the U.S. religion is full of vim and vitamins; in Britain it has tired blood...
Canon Edward Carpenter of Westminster Abbey was more specific. "It seems to me that there is a great deal of vigor, vim and virility in American life, which expresses itself in devotion to a competitive free economy. The same spirit. I have a suspicion, displays itself, at least in the externals, in the religious sphere, which to an Englishman seems rather odd at times. On the lighter side, for example. I recall reading an advertisement in a newspaper which began. 'Is any church so air-conditioned cool as . . . ?' and members of the congregation were invited to share...
...Vim & Vin Rouge. The congress itself soon fell to wrestling. Mendès-France's adherents in the gallery - young students and girls with ponytail hairdos, as well as portly elders - were equipped with police whistles. Mendès quickly won his first victory when the executive committee voted, 96 to 87, to replace Martinaud-Déplat by a seven-man administrative committee. Back from lunch came the delegates, full of vim and vin rouge, for the rest of the battle. When Mendès took the rostrum, there was a crashing ovation. A fist fight broke...
...last six months, one schoolboy complained that he was "beginning to feel middle-aged." A weary wag some years his senior replied by recommending The Black Shield of Falworth as distinctly "the lesser of medievals." Actually, The Black Shield is better than that. In sheer athletic thwack-in the vim with which buffets are fetched and weasands slit-it is one of the jaw-jarringest things of its kind since Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood...