Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign against the Japanese." Douglas MacArthur was quick to reply to Johnson. Said he: "The imminent collapse of Japan was clearly apparent several months before Yalta ... I would most emphatically have recommended against bringing the Soviet into the Pacific war at that late date. To have made vital concessions for such a purpose would have seemed to me fantastic." Both Lyndon Johnson and Douglas MacArthur were begging the real point, i.e., that whatever observations Mac-Arthur did or did not make as to military operations, they could hardly have excused the political amorality of Yalta...
...hearing this, Miranda drops dead-and the slaves are suddenly free. Or rather, they have that illusion, for Author Compton-Burnett devotes the rest of Mother & Son to hammering home a vital truth: those who consent to live under tyranny can never be released from it, not even by the death of the tyrant. The bereaved men make desperate proposals of marriage; eager spinsters hurry to accept them; but it is no use. By the last page, everything is just as Miranda would want it: both her men have proved unmarriageable, bound by force of habit and inclination...
...second major problem in the larger settlement is the disposal of China's seat in the United Nations. It would be a waste of this vital Security Council representation to keep the seat in Nationalist hands, for the present holders clearly cannot speak for the people of China. On the other hand, granting of this seat to the Mao Tse-tung government would have adverse consequences. Communist China has been several times branded an aggressor, and it might weaken U.N. prestige to make this condemned power the only permanent Asian representative on the Security Council, and thus in a sense...
...stay in office long enough to conduct responsible government. Although he himself had voted against the Mendès-France government, and thus helped bring on its collapse, he told a press conference that this 20th ministerial crisis in ten years was a blow to France's vital interests...
...professional indignation, special pleading and general rostrumism. Sometimes it seems to raise false eyebrows and to grit false teeth. The resolution of the plot is so facile as to appear insincere. But the picture also has the virtues of its vices: social conscience, honest anger and a narrow but vital kindliness...