Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monothematic eulogizing of a Bruce Springsteen who forever relives the nights of fast cars, bright lights, teenage promiscuity and gang fights; it was the expression of a wandering spirit, probing amid the ruins of the past and picking out vital bits of history or emotion that translate into powerful music...
Julie herself admits that the team's cohesiveness, in addition to their superior fitness which helps them outrun most other teams, and their coaching, has been a vital factor in the team's phenomenal 11-0 success. Naturally she takes no credit for that cohesiveness, emphasizing that it derives from the dedication of each individual member of the team...
...Japan invaded China in 1931. The agreement restored full political, economic, cultural and diplomatic relations, thus marking the end of a half century of enmity between the world's most populous country and Asia's principal industrial power. For Peking, the treaty served a dual purpose. It virtually guaranteed vital Japanese support for China's new and vastly ambitious plans for modernization. At the same time, it was a stunning geopolitical victory over the Soviet Union in the strategic northern Pacific region...
Inflation?and a realization by investors that farm land is a vital resource in a hungry
...mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which is "cute" (an expression, incidentally, which the English hate), but as a vital part of a process whereby the past and present are kept in equilibrium, you will be a long way to getting the most out of English university education. Yes, the English do take their academic work seriously--but it's not "the done thing" to broadcast the fact...