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Word: vitality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latin America hasn't had democracy for very long and teaching young people about the process is vital to it's success," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Groups Hit The Road Over Break | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...leader, F.D.R. picked an extraordinary team of generals and admirals. In partnership with Churchill, he presided over the vital strategic decisions. And also, in the footsteps of Wilson, he was determined that victory should produce a framework for lasting world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...process she discovered that she had talents--for public speaking, for organizing, for articulating social problems. She formed an extraordinary constellation of lifelong female friends, who helped to assuage an enduring sense of loneliness. When Franklin was paralyzed by polio in 1921, her political activism became an even more vital force. She became Franklin's "eyes and ears," traveling the country gathering the grass-roots knowledge he needed to understand the people he governed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eleanor Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...fact, he wanted to swallow up Russia, Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries to augment lebensraum: Germany's vital space. But then why did he launch his destructive war against London? Why did he declare war against the U.S.? Solely to please his Japanese ally? Why did he mandate a policy of cruelty in the Soviet territories occupied by his armies, when certain segments of the population there were ready to greet them with flowers? And finally, why did he invest so much energy in his hatred of Jews? Why did the night trains that took them to their death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adolf Hitler | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...sexual relations but went on into his old age with what he called his "brahmacharya experiments," during which naked young women would be asked to lie with him all night so that he could prove that he had mastered his physical urges. (He believed that total control over his "vital fluids" would enhance his spiritual powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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