Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not merit. The American way of life would immediately be conditioned by fearful waiting, by tremendous annual defense budgets, by a lower living-standard. This may be necessary in the near future, but it cannot be dovetailed with the facts to date. There is the final and vital objection that conscription, once established, would become permanent much like the income tax; it would probably be maintained on one or another pretext...
...Harold Raynsford Stark, confessing at last that the U. S. Navy, even when operating near its home shores, is helpless without enough aircraft to support and protect surface ships. (Admiral Stark told a House committee: ". . . Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without the assist ance of strategically located coastal or island shore-based aircraft.") The most revealing thing about U. S. Defense was a little slip of the tongue by Major General Charles M. Wesson...
...France and Britain, King Leopold's 'was a ghastly decision, for the gallant Belgian Army was the vital left wing of their pocketed troops. The Belgian capitulation made the plight of Maxime Weygand's northern armies nearly hopeless. For Weygand needed planes, tanks, fresh divisions, and above all time to reorganize his Army, a sixth of whose best men had been cut off. All he had now was his own resourcefulness and the courage of France...
...learning old folk dances, thus laying the foundations for occupational therapy. He visited his patients in their homes to observe their everyday life, took Mrs. Meyer along to talk to their families, worked up detailed case records. In this manner they blazed the trail for psychiatric social work, a vital part of psychiatric treatment today. In 1908 he helped Yale-man Clifford Whittingham Beers, who had recently recovered from manic-depressive insanity, start the mental hygiene movement to clean up State institutions, educate the public on insanity...
...First Lady of the land went on to say that she did not think tutoring is necessary "unless illness or some other equally justifiable reason rendered it vital." "Cramming," she asserted, "should be abolished...