Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, I pore over the statistics for the previous week, carefully studying rosters for weight losses in key players and other vital indicators...
...achieve a degree of unity in October that seemed impossible immediately after their August convention. Yet in defeat they lack a single strong leader. Lyndon Johnson may achieve an elder statesman's status, but he can hardly expect to regain the trust of the party's most vital activists. Humphrey, in his concession statement, pledged to "dedicate myself to a vital Democratic Party and to continue to work in the cause of human rights, of peace and the betterment of man." Although his showing certainly assures his position in the party, his most attentive listeners will...
...walked into the Cabinet Room and sat down at the President's left. Johnson brought him up to date on the pending decision, then asked for his military assessment. While other advisers listened silently, the President leaned on his elbow and kneaded his face. Then he shot a vital question at Abrams: "Has it reached the point where we could reduce the bombing without causing casualties?" Abrams looked squarely at the President, his jaw firm. "Yes sir," he said. If there was any single moment when Johnson finally decided to gamble on a bombing halt, that probably...
...Central Committee, at which Mao and his No. 2 man, Vice Chair-man Lin Piao, were reported to have made important speeches. The most immediate problem, according to the committee communique, is the job of "party consolidation and party building." The faithful Maoist press warned that this vital task cannot be left only to present party members-who might simply revert to the policies of Liu Shao-chi. Instead, new party members must come from the outside, primarily from "advanced elements among the industrial workers," while only tried and true Maoists among the party members are to be promoted...
...first blow in his opening statement. The Mail, he declared, had gone "well beyond what most newspapers would have considered adequate" in checking its facts. Not to have published the stories, he said, "would have been a dereliction of duty, a suppression of a matter of vital public concern." Fulfilling that duty could now cost Gandar and Pogrund, if they are convicted, a year in prison on each of two counts...