Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should rejoice at this sordid spectacle of Republicans belaboring Republicans. But as a loyal American, I cannot in my heart find any joy in a fracas which is seriously injuring the prestige of the United States, and keeping the minds of the people and legislators from far more vital affairs...
...Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate Democratic leader, who sounded the war whoop. "I don't wish to give the impression that Congress has been idle," he scoffed. "Far from it. We have solved the vital problem of who cut the colonel out of the photograph and left the private...
Tragic Delay. Until Friday, Bidault clung to the hope of help from his friend John Foster Dulles: perhaps some direct U.S. intervention, perhaps a declaration that the Tonkin delta around Hanoi was vital to the free world and would be defended if necessary by U.S. arms. That afternoon Dienbienphu fell. Overnight, Bidault read Dulles' speech, admitting that "present conditions there do not provide a suitable basis for the U.S. now to participate with its armed forces." It was a tragic day for Georges Bidault. To a sympathetic questioner, he said wearily: "My trumps? When I look at my hand...
...stay in their courses, Author Hawley's story is kept surprisingly well in line by Scenarist Ernest Lehman and Producer John Houseman. The movie follows the novel's basic notions: that Babbitt is not really so dead as Sinclair Lewis buried him; that commerce can be a vital and fascinating form of human activity; that businessmen are not villains and boobs (as they were in the "progressive" literature of the '205 and '305) or necessarily resigned commuters (as they usually are in the works of J. P. Marquand), but diverse human beings who fight diverse, exciting...
...Italian government has made it clear that a favorable Trieste settlement is its price for ratification of EDC. Western military planners, attempting to fix a barrier across the girth of Europe, consider Trieste vital to the defense of Italy and southern France, for it represents the only break in the formidable chain of mountains that runs from Geneva itself to the Adriatic sea. The successful defense of this gap clearly depends on the co-operation of Yugoslav and Italian forces...