Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Chinese, this was vital news. For the Burma Road, scratched almost literally by coolies' hands out of 715 miles of mountain and ravine from Lashio in Burma to Kunming in China, was no great shakes as a road but was everything to China as an idea. It meant as much to modern China as the Great Wall to ancient China. It represented a link with the world, foreign help, high morale, defiance. It represented the future...
...eyes of some people, Britain's very survival is in question. This was a grave new low in British fact-facing. It faced the new fact that now, after seven solid weeks of hammering from the skies, at least some sections of British opinion required the vital assurance Mr. Churchill sought to give. London could take it -but for how long...
...free course attracted some 40 students: artists, sculptors, interior decorators, advertising designers, photographers, students of architecture and engineering. Lecturer: the Institute's director, husky, 30-year-old Keith Martin, onetime Harvard crewman and portrait painter. Purpose of the course: to explore ways & means of protecting vital industries, plants, stores from attack...
Whether or not Willkie's listeners, like Clapper, began to see what he was driving at, he kept on driving. For the home stretch he mapped a killing itinerary. Before the campaign's end he would cross and crisscross the vital regions, smashing more & more boldly into Democratic citadels, ending with a bombardment of New York City...
...country. The editorial said, in regard to the President of the United States, One man has give this military aid to England and no one has made the effort to stop him." Does any sane American really want to stop him? Regardless of the fact that we obtained vital bases in return for those obsolete destroyers, can you really believe it unsound to try to bolster desperate England in the hope--even were it ten times as faint--of keeping war away from an appallingly unprepared America...