Word: vitalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...submarines can block American ports and shoot into the American interior. America's vital centers are just as vulnerable as NATO bases...
Once in operation, the NATO missile ring would give a vital resurgence of strength to the NATO defenses. The missile launchers themselves will be highly mobile and difficult to spot, hence all but immune to attack by Khrushchev's vaunted rocketry. In the event of a Russian missile attack on cities, the NATO rockets would be sure to respond. Thus, thanks to the IRBMs, the powerful deterrent now provided by the U.S. Air Force (see cover story) and Navy will be extended into the age of total missilery-a period beginning in two to four years when the Russians...
...second volume's description of Freud's personality and the early reception of his ideas; but it does portray Freud in the great mature wisdom of his old age and gives the most complete account of his thought of any of the three. Freud is depicted as a live, vital human being; an invaluable service to this psychoanalytically-oriented age. Jone's third volume is a fitting climax to his description of the dramatic life of the man who made us more aware of the irrational motivations of our behavior than any other, a fitting tribute...
Quietly and alone, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines made the one vital decision every Mexican President must make before his term expires-who was to be his successor. Last week from the presidential mansion, Los Pinos, the word was out: Ruiz Cortines' blessing went to his hardworking Labor Minister, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 47, a moderate leftist who could be counted on to push ahead with Mexico's maturing democracy and its fast-developing free economy...
Both naka-darumi and oi-uchi seemed to be exactly what the country needed. Japanese industry, which must import virtually all its raw materials, has been expanding faster than it could sell the manufactured goods on world markets, thus threw its vital balance of trade out of kilter to the detriment of its entire economy. Through the second quarter of 1957, imports poured in at the rate of $5.1 billion annually, 60% more than in 1956 and $2.4 billion more than the most optimistic estimate of exports. The drain on Japan's foreign-exchange reserves reduced them from...