Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th parallel would save Tourane, some vital air bases, and the only free road to Laos from the sea. As compensation, he was willing to give the Communists an enclave south of the 18th, but wanted a bridgehead at Haiphong (he had no hope of holding Hanoi...
...Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba, and promised that for the next year, at least, he would not seek public office. He arranged for the Vatican's vital nihil obstat, delivered by a spokesman: "The Vatican welcomes this induction of new energy in the Christian Democratic Party, without of course disparaging for one moment the paramount merits of the man who has now decided to step into the background." Vatican approval ended the risk that the party...
Electronic computers are rapidly becoming the oracles of industry. As machines and processes become more complex, problems can become too involved for quick solution by old methods and too vital for trial-and-error testing. Designing a new product-an electronic tube, for instance -may call for thousands of lengthy calculations. Often a computer can polish the whole thing off in a couple of minutes...
...committee that the scientist was now opposed to the Seattle location. Wiesner later told Woltman that Cohn had "misrepresented" his position, that he had never changed his mind about the Seattle site, and that "the sabotage charge was completely unfounded and ridiculous." Said Woltman: "By failing to present [this] vital testimony, Senator McCarthy could report mismanagement approaching sabotage . . . And the world's two largest transmitters now lie useless in Government warehouses." Swallows Come Home. Was there ever a time when McCarthy could have been stopped? Woltman thinks it would have been a simple matter for President Truman to have...
...watchmakers' claim that they are essential to national security, the Defense Department has said that such non-watchmakers as Eastman Kodak, Bendix Aviation and National Cash Register have supplied splendid timing devices and fuses for the armed forces (although the watchmakers claimed these companies got some of the vital parts from them...