Crossword-Solution: VIM 3 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

They gathered about the guns in groups and talked; talked of each piece some, but not with the old spirit and vim; the loneliness of the mountain seemed to oppress them; the mountains stretching up so brown and gray on one side of them, and so brown and gray on the other, with their bare, dark forests soughing from time to time as the wind swept up the pass.

Then, with our splendid banner year of 1912 came the winning of three states--Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon--preceded by a campaign so full of vim and interest that it must have its brief chronicle here.

Everybody's nerves were on edge, everybody was sure the thing would be a “flat failure.” The soprano sang off the key, the alto forgot to shriek “Beware, beware!” until it was so late there was nothing to beware of; the basso stepped on Billy's trailing frock and tore it; even the tenor, Arkwright himself, seemed to have lost every bit of vim from his acting.

Under the leadership of this capable Watkins, the workmen rushed at the vessel with the dash and vim of a gang of circus employees engaged in putting up a big tent and making ready for a show.

Although it seemed a well-nigh hopeless task, he entered upon the investigation with his usual optimism and vim.