Word: veldt
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...invoked as a slogan, the spirit of progress and adventure pervades Kennedy's rhetoric. Again and again in a single speech, the Senator draws applause with an appeal "to help us those this country forward again." Its choice of adjectives--"strong," "vital," "energetic," "vigorous"--would have delighted Theodore Roose veldt. The Rough Rider has reappeared, pale and wan, as the new frontier man. His bugle blast has faded into an earnest call for "a society with purpose, a society with strength...