Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Korean troops had fought a heroic but heartbreaking delaying action against the Communists-trading space for time, in the phrase of the military experts. After the landing of reinforcements, including the 1st U.S. Marines, the U.S. was now in a position to make a solid stand around the vital supply port of Pusan. If the Communists did not manage to strike a decisive blow this week, their chances of driving the U.S. into the sea would be virtually gone...
...great experience for me to read your factual and dispassionate contribution of "The Cat in the Kremlin" [TIME, July 17]. It made me perceive more acutely than ever before that truth is the powerful weapon of a strong country ... I hope that Americans will never cease to [appreciate] its vital necessity...
Tobacco & Trinkets. Sverdrup, still a civilian, hopped to Australia to plan a vital supply highway from Melbourne to Darwin. Later, after donning a colonel's uniform, he led the building of 200 airstrips and airfields and scores of military roads and bridges. The landing fields on New Guinea were stamped out of jungle & tall grass by the bare feet of Sverdrup's loinclothed "Papuan Aviation Battalion," who were paid in tobacco and trinkets. After rising to brigadier, then major general, Sverdrup came back to Missouri to work harder than ever in peacetime. His firm designed a $30 million...
...interest are well known in Taipei-partly through Chinese officials who have his ear, partly through public statements, such as a speech on the Soviet role in Asia delivered July 3. From these and other sources the following summary of the Generalissimo's current views on questions of vital interest to the U.S. was obtained last week...
...responsibility for reversing the trend, says Ebony, lies mainly with the ministry. "Required is more than a simple religious training and unbounded faith in the Lord. Today's minister must be informed on problems vital to labor; he must be close to the racial grievances of his flock and be a fearless fighter for Negro rights; he must be acquainted with social services and give his congregation the benefits of that knowledge. Today's man of God must be a combination of labor organizer, race leader and social worker in addition to an inspired preacher of the Gospel...