Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply vehicles behind, shed most of its personal equipment and set out through the muck. Ascending a narrow ravine they labored 2,000 yards to the shattered walls of the castle, sliding and cursing. Only a few snipers were left to oppose them, and the marines drove into the vital heart of the Japanese Shuri line. Said Major General Pedro A. del Valle, 1st Marine Division commander: "The most astonishing thing is how the hell they got there...
...debate on the tariff fizzled. For four days, Republicans fumed and spumed the ancient theory that tariff cuts mean U.S. unemployment and economic ruin. Democrats, huffing & puffing under the attack, argued that renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, with authority for further tariff cuts up to 50%, was vital to U.S. prosperity and U.S. world policy...
...enough and varied enough to support modern war. This sharp concentration naturally produced a tendency for other states to group themselves around the three strong ones, and for the three Great Powers to try to run things in their own regions. Because their power is naval and their vital interests are worldwide, the British are not so deeply enmeshed in "regionalism" as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union is creating a "sphere of influence" in the states along its borders. The U.S. has had its region since it had a Monroe Doctrine, rewritten and modified this year...
...education, the Institute announced, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s "cultural" programs were "by far the finest submitted"-were, in fact, "radio at its best." CBC gives the public "radio drama of originality, emotional appeal and intellectual integrity. . . ." CBC's dramatic programs show "courage and leadership in attacking vital, current human problems." The three judges said sadly of radio in general: "Frankly ... we felt no great surge of pride. . . . There was a surprising lack of1) freshness of approach, 2) imagination, 3) virility, 4) objectivity [in] both writing and production...
Passing Fancy. In Spokane, Wash., Bernice G. Peters, suing for divorce, explained that her husband refused to build a bathroom in their house because "sani tary facilities were something newfangled and wouldn't last." Literary Reflection. In New Westmin ster, B.C., a woman applied to the Director of Vital Statistics for permission to change her name from Dawn Anna Glow to Amber Glow...