Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American friends finally learned what 47-year-old Captain James Arthur Kehoe, peacetime tobacco farmer, stove manufacturer and general trader of Maysville, Ky., had been up to. He had been surveying the jungle, dickering with the savage Naga headhunters of the region, and setting up a series of vital military outposts in the trackless country between the U.S. air bases in northern Assam and Jap advance lines in Burma...
...international good will which the United States already enjoys; hence he vituperates the Tunisian-dead. Impracticality might be charged, but it is at least a healthy impracticality. A more serious irrationalism occurs when he attempts to represent the Republican Party as equally internationalist as the Democratic Party; gut the vital statistics of Congressional balloting should show such a statement to be an indulgence of wishful thinking. Mr. Willkie's Republican colleagues are mostly sterile or poisonous so far as international thinking is involved. Nevertheless, Willkie's breadth of thought may influence the G. O. P. to a greater wisdom...
TIME neglects to mention Rule 11 among necessary qualifications for nomination as Republican candidate for the Presidency. To wit: he must sit upon the fence on every vital question and express himself only in the vaguest generalities. With the exception of Mr. Willkie, no Republican candidate during the past 20 years has violated this rule...
Last week, in the Caucasus, the Russians drove home the first major blow of the spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk, and split the German forces in two. Three hundred barges full of Red marines landed on the north shore of the Taman Peninsula, attacked the Germans from the rear. These successes endangered Hitler's last position on the eastern shore of the Black...
Move No. 1 was announcement of a subsidy program, running as high as $2 billions per year, which would be used to hold down the cost of living. Of this amount $400,000,000 will be paid to processors of seven vital foodstuffs-in order to induce a 10% reduction in their prices...