Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed a 30-car caravan that rolled through spectacular canyons to the site of the $287 million McNary Dam, on the Oregon border. On hand to flip a switch activating the dam's fifth generator, the President took occasion to define one of the West's most vital issues: public v. private power. It was a bold, effective, potentially dangerous speech...
Auto Supply Down. Behind the new housing surge lay plentiful mortgage money, plenty of money in the bank (savings last month hit a new high of $25.5 billion), and that vital factor that no economist can assess, the willingness to buy. In the first half of 1954, said the Commerce Department, spending for personal consumption hit a new peak annual rate of $233 billion. The outlook for the rest of the construction industry also seemed bright. The Associated General Contractors of America polled its members (80% of the industry) and noted that building outlays of all types this year should...
Mendes-France is as anxious as anyone else that communism be met with strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments...
There is a line-sometimes difficult to identify but always a vital demarcation-between punishing for individual acts of subversion and punishing for adherence to political sentiments. Up to now, the American machinery of justice has operated on the premise that an individual can and should be punished for committing specific wrongs, but not solely for holding an opinion that is heretical to our concept of democracy. Stealing state secrets, conspiring to advocate the forceful overthrow of government or encouraging sabotage are included in the category of specific, punishable wrongs. Indicating an interest in Marxist philosophy or holding a membership...
Such, too, was the nature of Novelist Turgenev (Fathers and Sons, On the Eve, Rudin), with the vital difference that he spent a lifetime analyzing and fighting it. Too gentle to be as dogmatic as the proud Tolstoy, too rebellious to accept the resignation of Dostoevsky, Turgenev made his place in literature as a genius who dwelt in a house divided against itself, half slave and half free...