Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy had been firmly hinged to the principle that Europe's vital waterways should be internationalized. That policy had failed to persuade Russia to open up the Danube under international control. The policy would probably fail again if the Dardanelles fell under Soviet guns...
...Council was in the forefront of the decentralization plan for the College which included the establishment of the House libraries and activities. In two scholarly reports in the middle thirties on curriculum and tenure, the Council was successful in influencing University policy on both of these vital subjects. The excellent work of the Council committee on tutorial last spring should be familiar...
Whatever the count, it was evident at week's end that Curran & Co. could make a damaging cut in the vital flow of iron ore, coal and limestone to U.S. producers who must overstock before the Lakes freeze. The 70 ships manned by members of the A.F.L.'s Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This...
...busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity in wartime. Britain has no intention of jeopardizing them...
...child until it is six years old. Top Chilean doctors and obstetricians give their services free. Marie Schultze herself gets less than $1,200 a year, lives in a small apartment behind the clinic. Her reward: "The satisfaction I feel when I know I have had a vital part in saving some life...