Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollar diplomacy" (dollars for diplomatic ends, rather than diplomacy for dollars) meant that different nations would need different treatment. The world (which could not be bought) could be convinced that democracy was still a vital force, able to tackle the galling problems of the world's plain people. Dollars were not a bribe or a club. But they were an argument...
...this particular convention, and the specific nature of the topics under investigation, clever management and adroit manipulation can all too easily capture the affair for one faction or another. It is in a hopeful if not glowing attitude that the College must accept the Conference. But caution, which is vital, need not develop into a spirit of cynicism and fear that would prevent acceptance of the proposal, for whatever the result, it is incumbent on Harvard students to be represented in the discussions...
What should U.S. policy be? Something as follows: the vital interest of America is that Germany should be an independent liberal democracy. A liberal democracy, in America or anywhere else, means that the citizens thereof should have reasonable hopes of improving their condition by their own efforts...
...ironed out. And why should he go? To discuss trade? Canada already knew where she stood: she would help Britain, her best customer, back to stability with a loan of $1,250,000,000 and with urgent food shipments. Defense? Canada would, if need be, discuss that vital problem with the U.S., with whom her defense is strategically wedded...
...slow starvation. Doctors agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...