Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ignoring Lilienthal's request for a full-scale study of the Commission's work, Hickenlooper and some of his collegues have committed themselves to a biased approach--for one vital part of the AEC's work has been the setting up of sould civilian atomic control, and both the efficiency and merit of this program can only be discerned if the work of the group is viewed in totality...
Soccer is a vital part of the British way of life. Each Thursday in season, ten million Britons get a coupon listing the week's games. With sport pages of the papers spread before him and the family kibitzing, the fan makes his selections and his bet (from one penny up) in the weekly "pool." Led by the big three-Little-wood's, Vernon's and Copes's-the pools take in a staggering $250 million a year and rank as Britain's seventh industry...
...continued to say that apart from its implications for academic freedom, such a policy might reduce the effectiveness of scientific research, drive away brilliant students, reduce the free flow of ideas, and finally,".... alienate scientists, discouraging them from participation in government-sponsored research, thus retarding the progress of work vital to the national safety and welfare...
South of the city, the Communist vanguard surged on to a point halfway between Shanghai and the refugee Nationalist capital of Canton. More than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...Vital Statistics. In Tokyo, the Public Health Bureau announced the results of a survey of "democratic" habits: male college students choose as their kissing partners 1) coeds 60% of the time, 2) waitresses 20% of the time, 3) maids 10%, 4) other females...