Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of us responsible for the material condition and equipment of combatant ships going into action areas, it is still a frequent and heartbreaking experience to see them sail lacking many items which may be vital to the successful accomplishment of their mission...
...what scraps of learning or ideas I might have gathered [in Spain] would have been vital, the wind of politics and of poetry would have swelled them, and allied them with notions of honor." Puzzling Parents. George Santayana writes of his father's beliefs with the same care and exactitude that he devotes to those of Lucretius and William James, and analyzes his mother's independent mind as if she too were a philosopher. He discovered his mother's poems, kept in secret and sent to his father 20 years after their separation, and her letters...
...freight played in maintaining essential war production could not be thus measured in cold statistics. Last week a young, lean Navy lieutenant, Langdon P. Marvin Jr., chairman of WPB's Interdepartmental Air Cargo Priorities Committee, in a year-end summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate, columbite, industrial diamonds and rare drugs, the production lines of magnetos, electrical apparatus, stainless steel and medicines would have stopped dead...
...dragged vital equipment to the dumps...
...sing U.S. flyers of the South Atlantic. This week the Army officially revealed why. Tiny (34 square miles) Ascension Island, 1,400 miles from the bulge of Brazil, is one of the vital links in the Air Transport Command's world-girdling chain of airfields. Ascension is the dot in the ocean that made it possible to fly Lightning (P-38) single-seated fighters across the South Atlantic to combat fields in North Africa and England...