Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large--will be the toughest problem. But where 500 men sit dociley in a lecture course and scribble the crumbs that come at them thrice weekly, only a few actually make personal contact with the men on the podium or at the desk and thus give their work that vital additional tang. The institution, "office hours," has often made the difference between the most routine delineation of facts and an entirely new insight into the same material. Harvard faculty members are much more accessible than most undergraduates would believe. By not seeking them out, the fifth guy from the left...
...Vital Statistic...
...prevent more bungling and shortsightedness, the committee recommended a good dose of efficiency for the armed forces and the Government. Specifically, it called for: a national stockpile of vital raw materials, acquisition of strategic overseas bases now being abandoned, an expanded, more efficient intelligence agency, an up-to-date plan for the immediate mobilization of U.S. industry...
...Supreme Commander was annoyed because strikes were tying up vital communications and public utilities. He suspected that Communist-tinged unions especially those affiliated with the clangorous Congress of International Unions (Japan's C.I.O.), were using their privileges to sabotage the occupation. When a seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry...
...esthetic purge. Two outstanding literary figures, Poetess Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko (whom many Russians consider their best short story writer since Chekhov), were barred from all Soviet publications for "decadence" and "rotten lack of ideology." The literary magazine Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train Soviet youth in a high feeling of patriotism...