Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipe around, dropped it gently into a four-foot, slippery, clay ditch. Two welders banged their helmets down over their faces, descended into the ditch, self-conscious at doing their daily routine before 800 people. Their electric torches flared briefly, shooting a sizzling glare in the bright sunlight. The vital work done, short, rotund Interior Secretary Harold Le Clair Ickes stepped gingerly down into the pit, posed for the photographers. Big Inch was through...
Back to 1600. The shadows of the Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought. From the story of Waterloo he had learned that a line of resolute men on the defensive could again & again break an enemy attack. From Mexico he had watched Lee's dashing Confederates lose a war despite their commander's brilliance in attack. He had also learned that...
When Bazaine rode out to command the vital border fortress of Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along...
...over the black iron and concrete of the walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes 80% of the iron ore (mainly from Minnesota's Mesabe range) that U.S. steel mills feed into the U.S. war machine...
Juvenile thriller addicts, young or old, have a new radio hero. Chick Carter, the boy detective, is making life pretty difficult for The Rattler, a man with a foreign accent who through sabotage, blackmail, robbery and murder is trying to wreck the vital war industries of Midvale. Can Chick and his companions help Major Pennington protect his new war invention from The Rattler? (Answers given Mondays through Fridays, 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. E.W.T. over WOR-Mutual...