Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office in the Senate Office Building reflects his pride: the photographs of his wife and four sons, the bronze statue of his father which stands on the mantel-old William Howard Taft, long coat swept back, right hand in hip pocket. One large photograph of the ex-President, vital and smiling, waving a hat, rests on the floor, against the fireplace. When people try to hang it on the wall, Bob Taft waves his hand and remonstrates: "No, I like it right there...
...unfortunate that great progress cannot be immediately reported. But delay is preferable to error in such vital matters. We can "compromise" within the boundaries of a principle. We can no longer compromise principles themselves. That becomes "appeasement," and appeasement only multiplies the hazard from which it seeks escape. History leaves no room for doubt upon that score. The wrong answers will breed wars for tomorrow...
Said to be in an ideal mountain atmosphere, the Observatory, established in 1940, worked during the war on research activity vital to naval radio communications throughout the world, though this work has until now been of a highly confidential character. With an annual budget estimated at $50,000, the station will now "assume a greatly increased role in solar research and other phases of astronomy which can be done best at high altitudes...
...rubber concessions out of Peru, a customs union out of Bolivia, and has brought the Peron-sponsored candidates into a favored position in the coming Uruguayan elections. The U.S. may propose hemisphere military cooperation, but unless it supplements surface collaboration with effective economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration of the consequences of this threat during any future emergency...
Despite its painfully vital theme and generally plausible story, On Whitman Avenue is flattish propaganda and flatter theater. Working from the problem in, instead of from the people out, it consistently substitutes cardboard for flesh & blood, cliches for sharp, individual reactions. Dramatically, moreover, it soon hobbles, eventually halts. Fairly interesting while matters are coming to a head, from then on it can only .repeat its wrangles, restate its issues, and delay its ending...