Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were endless delays. French peasants refused to part with their land; wasteful engineering, hurry-up construction and sloppy workmanship resulted in lumpy, sagging runways that chipped under the weight of taxiing aircraft. Yet, one by one, good serviceable runways are being finished. Last week in the vital Central European Tactical Zone (see map), there were three times as many 8,000-ft. runways as there were a year ago. By the end of 1952, 60 big bases will be combat-ready...
...last weeks of the campaign McCarthyism has become a vital issue in the Purtell-Benton race. For the past two years Benton has been trying to get McCarthy thrown out of the Senate for improper conduct. The Wisconsin senator has retaliated with a libel suit, and a battle-royal has been waged in the newspapers. Since October 15 McCarthy has twice repudiate one of the Association's most reactionary stands made while he was president--its opposition to the federally-subsidized school lunch program. visited Connecticut to lambast Benton in fiery speeches. Purtell, an Irish-Catholic, did not invite McCarthy...
Schlesinger cited his book "The Vital Center," published in 1949, and an article in Life Magazine in 1946 as works of his which "exposed and indicted the Communist conspiracy in the United States...
...that "Lodge is vital, for only he can dampen the wild cries of the neo-isolationist Republicans and assume the role that Vandenberg so ably carried out." But this is not the case. Lodge does not command the respect of his Middle Western Republican colleagues as Vandenberg did. As Time Magazine wrote on December 17, 1951, under the heading, "The Lost Mantle," "When Vandenberg fell ill and retired from active leadership, most observers thought the mantle of Republican leadership in Foreign Policy would fall on Cabot Lodge. But somehow, the mantle never fitted. In 1949, Lodge led 14 liberal Republicans...
Although its aim is to exclude Communist spies and propagandists, the McCarran Act,* declares a group of eminent U.S. scientists in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is isolating U.S. science from vital European ideas and knowledge. It is also, they claim, antagonizing Europe's intellectuals and giving propaganda ammunition to Europe's Communists...