Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered masters of vessels to lock up all cameras while passing through the Panama Canal; entertained as overnight guests Dr. Rafael A. Calderon Guardia, President-elect of Costa Rica, and his wife. Declared President-elect Guardia: the defense of the Canal is Costa Rica's vital interest, for which she is ready to take any measure...
While this revelation damaged Mr. Witt and his protectors, the House Appropriations Committee and Virginia's Representative Howard W. Smith got their heads together over a plan to strike NLRB at a more vital point: its purse. The committee slashed the 1941 Budget estimates for NLRB from $3,180,000 to $2,843,000, scratched out entirely a $45,900 appropriation for NLRB's research division, which Labor-Economist Saposs heads. Even this damage failed to satisfy Tory Smith, who served notice he would move to strike out $23,700 for clerical help in the research branch...
Last week A. F. of L.'s apple-headed William Green tooted a blast against the Smith Committee Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (TIME, March 18). He said they "strike in a destructive way at vital, fundamental principles." There was something sour about this note that made those within earshot wince sharply. For Mr. Green had inveighed against both the NLRAct and the NLRBoard for many months, and his words had given most comfort to enemies of the Act. But little attention was paid him, for a man of bigger wind and deeper tone was playing...
...still the hordes came on, and at week's end even the Finns had to admit the Russians had several footholds on the coastal front. Obvious aim was to penetrate inland and cut the vital lines of communication from Helsinki to Viipuri, then sweep around behind the Finns' last-ditch defenses in the Mannerheim Line. Many a Finn was constrained to admit that a moderately honorable peace would be preferable to gradual strangulation by Joseph Stalin's Molasseskrieg...
...byways during the average Harvard week are some thirty extra-curricular lectures and informal talks. Audiences attending them range from three to several hundred, while the subjects may be anything from Atom Smashing to the Future of the British Empire. Some of these lectures are scoteric and unpalatable, others vital and appealing; rarely do any of them obtain the hearing or the permanence to which they are entitled...