Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steel shield from the deadly gases, the radiation in some spots exceeded 1,000 rems, twice a lethal dose. Yet Edward Houser, a chemistry foreman at the plant, had put on his antiradiation gear, including three pairs of coveralls and a full-face respirator, in order to draw a vital sample of contaminated water to help his colleagues figure out what was happening. He absorbed only four rems during his mission; a total of five is the limit set by the plant for a year. "It's not the kind of thing you want to do," he explained later...
...that Islam varied from place to place, subject to both history and geography. Islam was unhesitatingly considered to be an abstraction, never an experience. No one bothered to judge Muslims in political, social, anthropological terms that were vital and nuanced, rather than crude and provocative. Suddenly it appeared that "Islam" was back when Ayatullah Khomeini, who derives from a long tradition of opposition to an outrageous monarchy, stood on his national, religious and political legitimacy as an Islamic righteous man. Menachem Begin took himself to be speaking for the West when he said he feared this return to the Middle...
...tight corners before, and after eleven years in power, Trudeau has held office longer than any other Western head of government. Last week he was embroiled in the toughest fight of his career as Canada embarked on a federal election campaign that Trudeau described as "the most vital in my lifetime." On May 22, Canadians will decide whether to give Trudeau, 59, a fourth mandate, or turn the country over to an ordinary Joe-Progressive Conservative Leader Joseph Clark...
...Ferrante, playing at defense wing yesterday instead of on the attack, proved herself a vital cog in the Crimson resistance with four key stickchecking maneuvers that brought the ball back into Harvard hands...
...Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly provide sufficient information to allow a medium-sized nation to move faster in developing a hydrogen...