Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pantelleria, site of an early Neolithic culture, conquered in the course of history by Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks and Italians, a stepping-stone from Africa to Europe and a vital traffic control on one of the sea's busiest highways, was in Allied hands. It was a stone under Mussolini's Italian boot. His toe is certain to be tromped on. His heel is in hot water, his bottom fair game for a pincers movement...
...picture of Blimp's life: "To depict British officers as stupid, complacent, self-satisfied and ridiculous may be legitimate comedy in peacetime, but it is disastrously bad propaganda in times of war. ... In such times as these, when the respect and confidence of other countries are of vital importance to us, we cannot afford to put out a burlesque figure like this Colonel Blimp to go round the world as a personification of those British officers who . . . gave and are still giving such good service to their country...
...Vital information of this type should be stapled in the back of every traveler's passport. . . . Dr. Kelly's idea of tattooing it on the body itself is even better...
...FEAR - Graham Greene - Viking ($2.50). A tall, stooping, lean man with a sharp narrow face, a twisted nose and a sensitive mouth, won a cake at an English fair and found him self in a maze of fifth columnists - the cake, intended for someone else, contained photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk - years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character...
Episcopalian Willkie found them serving "the cause of good will for America," characterized them as "vital to the future hopes, not alone of other nations, but of our own United States...