Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front hung in delicate balance. Any additional divisions the Gimo threw in to tip the scales would fatally weaken the sector from which they were withdrawn. His most dependable combat troops, the tough, hard-fighting veterans of General Fu Tso-yi, were already over-extended and outnumbered in the vital Peiping corridor...
...Bibi seldom speaks of modern art: "I think nothing of it," says he sternly. "It's merely playing infant, kicking, screaming and smashing, or daubing and kneading with paint and clay. As long as man has two eyes and ears, one set of vital organs, he will tend to return to the classical...
Steelmen, who were just about to launch a voluntary allocations plan of their own, feared that if the military got all it wanted, ECA and other vital civilian programs would suffer and the "nonessential" users of hard-to-get steel would starve. Despite White House assurance that the law would not be used recklessly, George A. Renard, executive secretary of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, protested that it opened a "Pandora's box of controls." Mindful of the wartime jungle of red tape, one manufacturer fervently prayed that "every second lieutenant in the armed forces would not slap...
...free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed his seat in Parliament. His contribution to last February's Communist coup was vital: he had organized and armed the factory "action committees" which subjugated non-Communist workers...
...made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money ($85 a week) as a wartime shipyard worker. It took a lot of talking by glib Felix Bocchiccio, a small-time Camden promoter, to lure him back into the fight racket. Bocchiccio supplied two vital things he lacked before-management and money-and Jersey Joe began punching his way into the headlines...