Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors of TIME think differently. That is why we have a Press section where, week after week, we cover newsmen and the story behind the story. More fundamentally. TIME reports news about news because the press is a cornerstone of free, democratic government, and its workings a vital part of modern society...
...University were to make long range plans for a Far Eastern Research Center, foundations would probably help finance new permanent appointments to the faculty. By appealing to an outside source to strengthen Far Eastern studies, Harvard would not only be "leading from strength," but would be leading into a vital field of research not yet fully explored...
Vice President Nixon was very restrained. What . . . term . . . fits the actions of the heads (at those times) of the Democratic Party? The withholding of vital information from the commanding officers in Honolulu which resulted in the disastrous Pearl Harbor defeat . . . The refusal to let General MacArthur whip the enemy in North Korea when he had them on the run (of course, the invitation to the Communists to overrun South Korea was even worse, as it precipitated the whole inexcusable mess). If these two specific actions aren't treason, make the least of them...
...case his promotion, or that of Marshal Zhukov's to succeed him, should be taken as a sign that the army might take over the country. Molotov last week went out of his way to underscore a vital statistic: 77% of all men in the Red Army belong either to the Communist Party or to the Komsomol (young Communists...
Superintendent Gores predicted that the plan may be a vital factor in determining methods of dealing with the critical scarcity of teachers expected when the nation's post-war babies reach secondary school age. "State normal schools provide elementary teachers, but this is the first time that a way has been devised for encouraging the necessary numbers of well-qualified people to teach in the high schools." The deluge of children is now in the lower grades of the public school systems...