Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Minister of Labor Ambroise Croizat found "the vital interests ... of an impoverished and anemic France" endangered by the strike. After seven days the strikers went back to work, still smarting at the treatment they received from a Government predominantly composed of professed friends of labor. The printers, however, had the last word. When the Communist Humanité approved Croizat's stand, Parisians had no chance to read the party line. Union printers found two passages offensive, ran big white blanks instead...
Three years ago this term Harvard was a very different place; different in purpose, different in content, different in appearance. The spring that is now being unwound was then just being coiled, as the University prepared itself for what was to be a vital role in the nation's war effort...
Peace & U.S. Interests. When difficulties arise among us, the United States does not propose to remove them by sacrificing its ideals or its vital interests. Neither do we propose, however, to ignore the ideals and vital interests of our friends...
...estates, who were chased out or imprisoned by the Japs, return. There were 1,400 in Malaya before the war. Now there are only 120. Many are still recuperating in England and Australia from the starvation of concentration camps. Nevertheless, production of natural rubber (not nearly as vital at present as tin to the U.S.) is expected to be up to 25 or 30% of normal in six months. Within a year it is expected to reach 60%. Few planters were worried about the competition of the war-built U.S. synthetic industry. They are sure that they can undersell synthetics...
...group of six men sitting around a table were told to discuss the chief problems confronting the U.S. after the war. At the end of half an hour, they were to appoint a chairman to summarize their conclusions. The vital questions: who would contribute the best ideas? Who would become the leaders as the discussion developed...