Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objectives of a war is a political responsibility, but the Truman Administration never clarified its objectives in Korea. Military action could not be fitted to strategic aims which were not clear enough. Before the Korean war began, the U.S. knew (and the Kremlin knew) that Communist aggression in certain vital areas (say a Red army advance into West Germany) would be met with all-out atomic retaliation by the U.S. But the U.S. did not know (and the Kremlin knew it did not know) what to do about limited aggression. A vague doctrine of defending the perimeters of the free...
...President in importance), the Treasury had been at the center of the nation's high politics. Jackson staked his political career on a showdown battle over fiscal policy, and shuffled Secretaries like poker cards until he got one who agreed with him. And so, embroiled in one vital question or another, the Treasury was at the heart of politics in subsequent administrations; Treasury & tariff, Treasury & greenbacks, Treasury & free silver, Treasury & the gold standard were hotly argued at the nation's dinner tables through the generations, and into the first months of the New Deal...
Though there are links missing from the chain of cause & effect, Dr. Robertson is confident that disgust and nausea arie two vital links. It does little good, he says, to give drugs to counter these patients' states of mind or interfere with the working of their glands, or, finally, to operate, because the illness has been fixed by years of conditioning. Dr. Robertson's name for it: "rejection dyspepsia...
...cosmetics and toilet goods named after her husband. With her new plant, she plans to expand Gourielli production (which now includes some items for women), is certain that men cannot get along without such products as her brushless shaving cream. It contains "amazing active ozone [releasing] vital oxygen . . . beneficial to tender skin...
...American companies were losing out on valuable advertising, promotion and good will. Even Beaverbrook's competitors rallied to his side. The News Chronicle, denouncing "an attempt at dictatorship," gave "its full support . . . for the whole conception of a free press is involved . . ." Said the Spectator: "A really vital principle is at stake . . . This kind of pressure is completely intolerable...