Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pledge. It was no easy promise to keep. German strength in the area turned out to be even heavier than expected. The airborne troops dropped in at 1 a.m. and grabbed the vital bridges, but then they had to dig in and stand off one violent counterattack after another...
...Japanese nightmare burst into harsh and thunderous reality. The mainland was attacked. The U.S.'s new and secret B-29 Superfortress bombers came up out of China last week and bombed a vital industrial target in the Empire's heartland...
...Whether the press survives as a vital instrument of democracy will depend upon the wisdom and temper of its owners. Theirs it is to decide whether they shall . . . fight the people's battles . . . or fight the people for the interests; whether they shall administer a trusteeship or exploit a privilege...
...duration and six months after." They are releasing men and doing their work just as efficiently as any WAC, WAVE, SPAR or woman Marine. But no one hears about them. They get no credit; and they should, as the work they are doing is just as vital. They get no glamorous uniforms, no pictures and send-off in the papers when they join up. They have no housing and rations given them, no hospitalization (unless actually injured at work, not for flu, pneumonia, or other diseases). And when "the duration and six months after" is over, they are out, with...
...which the U.S. appeared like a stretched-out tigerskin rug, on which Australia might be as compressed as a frankfurter, or on which Winnipeg or Imphal suddenly showed up as the center of the world. These were maps of global war, on which menacing arrows pointed unerringly at vital targets; maps of the air age, in which distances were measured not in miles but in flying time...