Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House procedure. A plan had been laid to bring up the Worley bill under a rule which would let it be shouted down by voice vote, with no recording of yeas & nays. President Roosevelt suggested that every Congressman should be willing to "stand up and be counted" on this vital issue. He said he felt he was within his rights in suggesting this, "as an interested citizen." At this the House seethed with mocking laughter...
Ohio's Frances P. Bolton reasoned: "I cannot believe that the people of this country will want to do anything less for themselves and the future than to play a vital, living, vivid part in this, our first venture into international responsibility...
...Britain's birth rate on Sept. 30, 1943 was 16.2 per 1,000, highest in 17 years. But a vital-statistics authority, Sir Leonard Hill, said last week: "We cannot be satisfied until it has gone up to something over 19. ... There are too many old people and far too few young to make a vigorous nation...
More problems than isolation wear A.A.C.S. nerves thin. Example: vital equipment reached a central African station accompanied by a note, "Screws for installation may be obtained at the nearest hardware store.'" The nearest hardware store was 1,000 miles away...
Before Mr. Graham could say "Canol," the U.S. was committed to a project requiring 200,000 tons of shipping space, hundreds of vital priorities, shiploads of precious refinery equipment, 4,000 troops, 12,000 civilians. Prospectors probed for oil 75 miles south of the Arctic circle; roads sprang up through Canada's frozen wilder ness; shivering crews stretched 4-in. pipe line from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River across 500 miles of barren north west territory to Whitehorse on the Yukon...