Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well he knew that the British had prepared a reception for his troops as hot as the man-killing sun which danced off his pith helmet. Not without a fight would the British relinquish their airport, their desert training post and railhead of their vital line curling back 165 miles along the coast of Africa's eastern horn to Alexandria. Middle East Commander Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell was handicapped by having far fewer troops than Graziani. Even so, they were not spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis...
...administration and personnel, might well be considered from the student's point of view, with the objet of discovering what part it actually plays in the education of different types of students and what might be done to improve it. We believe that all these problems should be of vital interest to students and that it is the Council's duty, as their representative, to concern itself with them...
...people who heard the score done separately assure me that it is just as moving, though in a different way of course, off the screen as it is on. This should be enough to convince any skeptics who doubt the future of movie music. After all, music is a vital part of cinematic and dramatic production; it is not less essential than the acting, for it integrates and gives point to a work of art. The great climax, "Give me some lights! Away!," in Hamlet, simply cannot be staged effectively without music. There are too many blank spaces between spoken...
...progress, though knowing that the camp of preparedness is lousy with embryo fascists and with profiteers, feel that bold strategy is called for if out country is to survive and our attempts at meaningful democracy to continue. We will not abandon our rightful share in the leadership of a vital program to those martinets and those businessmen who would pervert it into a prelude to fascism or to unnecessary war. We know what they want of preparedness--but we also know what we want. We want to present a picture of strength to the world such as will discourage...
Fighting in Africa's deserts is like playing chess with nothing but rooks and pawns. Whole areas of strategic gambit are impossible, and even admissible tactics are confounded and confused by nature. Water is as vital as ammunition; sand finer than talcum makes its way into eyes, carburetors and rifle breeches; heat averaging 120 degrees out of doors becomes incineration inside a tank or behind an airplane engine. Trails ideal for the soft pads of camel feet are too soft for the treads of caterpillars. Mirages, the blistering wind called ghibli, sand blizzards, lack of cover, germs and salt...