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The accident, which spawned congressional hearings, litigation and a criminal probe, galvanized opponents of nuclear power.

She was re-elected to Congress in 1941 and argued against America joining the fight in World War II. But the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor later that year galvanized the country.

The galvanizing anthem, written for the film by Stephen Schwartz, was a technical and emotional feat.

“North” was a galvanizing book for its bog poems as well as sequences such as “Singing School” and “Whatever You Say Say Nothing”:

Here are some moments that galvanized the Dodgers’ run to another World Series triumph.