Word: vitalize
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...understand the hard-boiled nature of Ellroy’s work, as well as his midnight sense of humor, it’s vital to understand where he came from. His book jackets brusquely state that “James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948,” which he referred to as “my smog-bound fatherland.” Ellroy admitted, “I think that says...
...while both wins came against NSCAA regionally ranked opponents, it was the score against the Bears that was particularly vital, as it came in the closing seconds of a game whose outcome could very well decide who wins this year’s Ivy championship...
...insurgents hope to pull Mosul apart by targeting those people best-placed to help unify it. Threats and assassinations often target the city's professional classes, workers in its economically vital oil industry and known political moderates. "Anyone who advocates freedom and democracy is considered to be publicly for America and a target," says Rooa al-Zrary, a Mosul journalist whose father, the editor of a moderate newspaper, was murdered last year. Doctors are fleeing, finding work in Erbil. "The situation is bad and getting worse," says a surgeon at Salaam Hospital, the city's largest. Adds a colleague...
...theme, Team America: World Police is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil mentality may be more widespread than we’d like to believe. What this movie says to me is that it may not just be the music, movie and fashion industries that are nostalgic for the glory...
With the Crimson leading 2-1 midway through the third, Farrar called a vital time out. After Harvard regrouped, Voith, Offsay and Garcia reentered the pool to change the atmosphere of the tense, defensively dominated game...