Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bills to extend some of Britain's most vital (and most onerous) wartime controls. For weary Britons, the end of weariness...
...Vital Spot. In dealing personally with the oil strike, Lew Schwellenbach was trying to meet the most immediate of many dangers. Already, 35,000 refinery workers were out in seven states; another 250,000 threatened to walk out. Gasoline supplies were running low in many states...
...Vital Threat. In Detroit, the wildcat strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. still kept 50,000 Ford workers from their jobs. One night last week the United Automobile Workers' President R. J. Thomas begged and pleaded with the un ruly strikers to go back to work. They drowned him out with boos. The Kelsey-Hayes workers had taken matters into their own hands; neither Thomas nor, apparently, any other top U.A.W. official could get them back...
...long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but by hampering their vital processes. The search for a tuberculosis cure was revivified. No one has the answer yet, but new clues are turned up every week. Recent ones...
...story like this. Desperately short on finesse, the film's makers laid on the loving kindness with such a broad commercial trowel that the effect is often suffocating. Most of the archness and comedy is even harder to take: e.g., the mystification over such bits of vital indigenous slang as "hot dog" and "bull" (policeman...