Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal maneuvers (e.g., test cases in court, redistricting), Herman Talmadge and others could continue segregation for some time. But they have little chance of making it permanent. The Supreme Court's decision was another vital chapter in one of the greatest success stories the world has ever known: the American Negro's 90-year rise from slavery. The Herman Talmadges are not going to write the last chapter of that story...
...successive days, the Red guerrillas in the delta had been strong enough to dig trenches and lay mines across vital Route Coloniale 5-Hanoi's only main road link with its supply port, Haiphong. Last week some 2,000 Communists stormed a French battalion position 36 miles from Hanoi and a Vietnamese outpost less than seven miles from the city...
...shot and almost killed, the comrades momentarily showed their rough hand. They blocked 70 roads leading to Genoa, thus preventing government troops from entering the city. In Venice, they seized the radio station and broad cast false news. In an emergency, Barzini believes they could take over "all vital points"in the nation in a few hours. "In Italy, public order is maintained not so much by legal force as by the prudence of the Communists...
...probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision and suppleness of conductor Spies' rhythmic impulse and the virtuosity of the instrumentalists resulted in a vital reading of the Septet...
...Assembly-even while Dienbienphu still stood-the rush was on to call off the whole embittering war in Indo-China. A man of Munich mounted the rostrum, an older, shrunken figure of the man who in 1938 spoke for the abandonment of Czechoslovakia. "Ceasefire and armistice are in the vital interest of the French army," said Edouard Daladier, now 69. "I fear that if we await the decision of the international conference in Geneva, we shall find ourselves . . . too late, much too late...