Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a problem which has been attacked with vigor and courage on a state level by the progressive administrations of many individual states, notably New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oregon, and a handful of other states. While progress has been made, the reluctance of other states to follow suit, and the inability of these leading states to create truly effective interstate agreements on such vital issues as adequate minimum wages, housing, health safeguards, transportation, child care and education has made federal action essential...
Editorial Boldness. Houstonians have learned to expect outspokenness from the Press, a paper that has little to lose and much to gain from piping up. The Press's editorial vigor gains extra measure from the timidity of the Chronicle and the Post...
...innovators." Under either Kennedy or Nixon, one ingredient of the Western alliance would soon be missing: the so-I-told-Winston and remember-back-in-Africa camaraderie that has linked Ike with De Gaulle and Macmillan. But almost everybody seemed ready and eager to trade old palships for new vigor. Declared Britain's Manchester Guardian hopefully: "Whatever happens, both the Los Angeles and Chicago conventions must give America's friends the feeling that they are on the move...
Only college theatre can save the contemporary American stage from lethargy and stagnation, a group of distinguished panelists agreed Tuesday. By trying out new plays, by "pushing the boundaries of theatre farther out," and by "shocking" people, undergraduate drama will add vigor to modern theatre, a vigor currently lacking...
...history." Glowed the Indianapolis News: "A forceful leader, a hard campaigner, and an articulate speaker." The Denver Post lauded Nixon's "political skill," the Christian Science Monitor his "depth of thinking," the St. Paul Dispatch his "ability to unify divergent groups," the Portland Oregonian his "experience, vigor, intelligence...