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Word: vitalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moira Wylie, as Hilda, the young, bright worshipper of the master builder, who nonetheless represents the generation that he fights, is, in brief glimpses, ebullient and vital. Too often, however, she stands firmly, awkwardly, unnaturally, for little reason. This may be the director's fault...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Master Builder | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

...hard sell" is therefore thought necessary, and in the fierce competition loyalty to one's sponsor is more vital than talent. Ed Sullivan is rarely photographed far from a Lincoln automobile, and Eddie Fisher spent the second day of his honeymoon campaigning for CocaCola...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Idiot Box | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...world-minded businessmen, apprehensive over a U.S. drift to protectionism, Nixon's proposals were a heartening reaffirmation of official intent to work for freer trade, a vital contribution to economic betterment of under-developed nations. In conference rooms and hotel corridors, businessmen vigorously debated a host of other issues that ranged from new investment incentives (see New Ideas for Investment) to German Banker Herman Abs's call for a Magna Carta of investors' rights (see The Capitalist Magna Carta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: THE VALIANT VENTURE | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Many a surgeon dreams of the day when, like the mechanic faced with a worn-out fuel pump, he will be able to dip into a bank of human spare parts and fix up his patient with a replacement for.an ailing organ−even one so vital to life as a kidney or the heart itself. So far, apart from the difficulty of obtaining such spare organs, two obstacles have seemed insuperable: 1) the surgical difficulties of making all the necessary blood-vessel connections in time, and 2) the immune reaction which causes a recipient to manufacture antibodies that destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Hearts | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...prostitute. As for Bernard, he does not want the actress; he wants Josee, who is beautiful, drives fast cars and gets more money than anyone needs from her family in North Africa. Naturally, she does not want any part of Bernard. For her it is a vulgar-but-vital medical student who can take her or leave her. As a result, Bernard is very sad and does not have much use for his nice young wife Nicole. For once Author Sagan is thoughtless of the needs of her characters: she fails to provide a lover for Nicole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hello, Emptiness! | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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