Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vital Statistics: Yearbook's Al Connors and Co. plan an Alteration May 27. It seems that an Army-Navy coalition was arranged this weekend when Carlos Cole's Army nurse returned to Chicago with a sparkler. Your Battalion Commander, Brinker, he with audible voice, is New York-bound this weekend. An added inducement to the purchase of the "Rough Roll" is the fact that 134 Waves will be represented pictorially. You may also expect your copy of the Yearbook in about one month...
...gimlet-eyed, barrel-chested Coast Guard commander boarded the Streamliner in Los Angeles last week and left behind a list of legends that would do credit to the crustiest admiral. After two and a half years as the colorfully efficient guardian of the vital port of Los Angeles, 46-year-old Commander Frank David Higbee had a new assignment where he would undoubtedly originate more forecastle tales. With him he carried the thanks of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and a scroll from his enlisted men: "Just blow that whistle from Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strand...
This continuity of development, says Michaelis, was Britain's salvation. Germany, disarmed for ten years after World War I, suffered a vital loss in experience. And when General Göring took over the Luftwaffe in 1933 he kept bomber models of that year in mass production "in order to build up a big air force at once." Armor and armament were sacrificed for the sake of speed...
...test was the Battle of Britain, and Britain's Fighter Command "had been training for this event for years."*Consequently, Author Michaelis modestly denies the contention that if Hitler had attacked directly after Dunkirk "he could have walked [into Britain] and helped himself." His vital air power, thinks Michaelis, would simply have been defeated "two months sooner." The German bombers, "with their oldfashioned, manhandled gun mountings, were insufficiently armed to protect themselves." Their escorting Messerschmitts, designed according to German fighter tradition for "a very fast dive, snap shoot, and away," were not built to "stay and fight a delaying...
...allowed to use such a phrase as "the siege of Singapore": " 'But surely you can't deny that we are besieged.' " 'Besieged, yes,' said the military censor, 'but I object to the noun "siege".' " Such bureaucracy was seriously harmful in the more vital areas of the war. But it is Weller's view that the picture of Singapore as a decadent, liquor-swilling, escapist community is totally false. Decisions came from London, and from Lon don, too, should have come the planes without which the Malayan forces were helpless. The decision...