Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thing. The present leaders, many of them middle-aged or older, believe that they can retain the group's established ways and still keep it vital and strong. They feel no need to apologize. WE'RE DOIN' OUR THING, said the orange-and-black buttons worn by many of the 2,000 delegates. To A.M.E. Zion Bishop Stephen Spottswood, 72, N.A.A.C.P. board chairman, "our thing" meant the full sweep of Negro-American progress in this century. "What has been achieved, we have achieved it," he declared. "What remains to be done, we shall...
Heroin is usually injected directly into a vein or "mainlined," and it soon slows down vital functions. A large enough dose will stop them altogether. Yet it is often difficult to determine the exact cause of death. Dr. Milton Helpern, New York City's chief medical examiner, says that there is no clear evidence of simple overdose in the great majority of heroin deaths. Instead, 90% are caused by what he calls an "acute reaction" to the drug or its adulterants. "We don't like to call them overdoses...
...were going to live forever and cast your plans way ahead," Gropius wrote. "If your contribution has been vital, there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality...
...camera sweeping around her. Ophuls' cutting in closer to her body, rather than tracking in (a surprising thing to do in CinemaScope, which is better adapted to long takes than to quick cutting), emphasizes her staticity, her closeness to death. But the camera motions, which express the glamor vital to the circus, generate the energy and the grace Lola needs to begin re-enacting her life...
...State-and any other U.S. college headed for the same vortex. The group urges California officials to launch "a thorough review of the whole spectrum of present educational policy, especially as to admission qualifications and content of curriculum." Better communication among the different elements of the college is also vital: "Steps must be taken to bring president, faculty and students truly together in critical periods." Without such reforms, said the group, the future is bleak: "An overriding public opinion may force the conversion of San Francisco State and other colleges into screened and guarded camps, institutions of learning in name...