Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong government, one that will press for much-needed increases in production per worker without an inflationary jack-up in wages. One of his first goals is to reform the costly, featherbedding social-security system. And he also hopes to save some of Chile's vital copper income produced in times of high prices to tide the country over inevitable slumps in world copper markets...
...Gold and dollar reserves slipped $28 million from the 1956 level, but the money went for vital purchases: U.S. corn to offset the effects of a drought and refined petroleum products...
Readers of the famed "Agony" (personal) column in the Times of London had never before seen anything quite like this: "Social consciences wanted. The improvement of contraceptive methods is a vital social problem . . . New methods can only be proved by couples willing to risk pregnancy. We urgently want volunteers for our trials...
...such nations are still not healthy, they would have been sicker without aid-and prey to riot and revolution. And so, swallowing its misgivings, the U.S., in its newfound determination to rid itself of the stigma of hostility to Arab nationalism, is now even implicitly committed to give vital economic aid, on his own terms, to the Egyptian dictator whose propaganda spokesmen daily proclaim his contempt for the U.S. and all its works...
...relief are good. Last week eight U.S. Senators from heavily suburban New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut sent a plea to the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to find a solution to commuter woes, urged "that the Federal Government not preside over the liquidation of vital railroad services." But rather than federal aid or higher fares, the Interstate Commerce Commission believes that more local subsidies for rails are the solution. Says ICC Chairman Howard Freas: "If an urban or interurban commuting service needs subsidizing, it should be by the communities served and not by freight shippers throughout...