Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the scientist nodded to TIME's correspondent. "Turn the switch." The switch looked like a valve on a gas stove, it turned easily. Control rods (probably of cadmium) clanged into place. They soaked up the vital neutrons faster than they were produced from the uranium. The pile stopped...
Said Dean Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia's Mount Airy Lutheran Theological Seminary, to explain the vital need for such unprecedented cooperation: "Christians are a minority in the world. If they do not become organized, their voices will not be heard in the councils of the world and they will have no effect...
...loving care dismantled a power plant in Bavaria, in the U.S. zone, which had been earmarked for Russia before reparations were suspended. Said the wrinkle-browed, grim-faced Soviet colonel who supervised the work: "You [Americans] don't understand what reparations mean. . . . To us it is an absolutely vital part of our national economy-something we must have if the Soviet people are going to get a standard of living anywhere near what they had in the middle thirties, which, God knows, was low enough. . . . Politically it makes our row harder to hoe, but economic necessities...
Because the new Government seemed to spike Perón's dream of an Argentine-dominated Bloque Austral (Southern Bloc), Argentina conceivably might sponsor a counterrevolution. Or she could cut off vital exports to Bolivia of wheat and beef. But the U.S., too, had ^n economic wedge. A new Bolivian tin contract was coming up; the U.S. was expected to go through with its plan to pay some 10% more for Bolivia's chief export...
Harvard Student Councils have long deplored the indifference with which their actions and proposals were greeted. While the fact that the council was made a truly elected, representative body would not per se make the council's activities a matter of vital interest to every student, the students could at least feel that these activities were under popular control, and that the opinions expressed in the council meetings were not those of a select group...