Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours away. The steel strike would tie up an industry on which many others are dependent. And the main issue (i.e., higher pay) was the same as that which had already provoked a motor strike and promised strikes in the electric industry, in the telephone system, in a dozen vital spots in the U.S. economy. The outcome here would probably set a pattern in labor trends for the whole reconversion period...
Sirs: I would very much like to continue the discussion which I started under your heading of "Third-Class Country?" because I feel it is one of vital concern to the future of this land of ours. I want to make it clear to those people who thought I was criticizing our Army for its behavior that I emphatically was not. I was criticizing us, me, the people who raised the men in the Army and made them what they are. The Army turned out to be the greatest, and I hope the last, fighting force the world has ever...
...would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give a false impression of slackness you know. You are being trained for a position of great responsibility. Punctuality is considered most vital in this organization. We demand the most absolute discipline and obedience...
Some day UNO may become the vital center of world affairs. Statesmen may struggle to fill its posts. But last week it was in the position of the weak U.S. Supreme Court of 1800, when John Jay turned down the chief justiceship because the court lacked "energy, weight and dignity. . . ." Not only in the great, but even in the smaller countries leaders were bowing away from UNO's $20,000 a year (tax free) job as Secretary-General...
...obviously earnest part of his book. "My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime. These memories, which are my life-for we possess nothing certainly except the past-were always with me. . . . These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival...