Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today Switzerland is just one big factory working day and night for the Germans." (Until France fell the Swiss worked almost exclusively for the Allies, now have to sell to German markets lest the Nazis withhold vital coal supplies. Even so, Switzerland still trades with the U.S., has 14 Swiss ships plying the Atlantic...
Wild qualified this statement, however, by saying that latest reports from North Africa and London gave good cause for believing that the apparent scarcity of hard facts concerning the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting was only the result of the necessity of keeping vital military plans secret until they could be put into effect against the Axis...
...northern end of the front, where the Germans had held on stubbornly against subArctic weather that distressed even the acclimated Russians, the victory announced by Moscow could be of vital import. Near Schlüsselburg runs a railroad to Moscow and beyond. To the west, less than 30 miles, are more routes to the south. If these are retaken, the Russians will re-establish direct communications along their whole line...
Greece. Greek guerrillas under onetime Army officers and a village priest, operating in mountain areas, destroyed an 80-ft.-high steel railroad bridge on a route vital to German transport. Most of the guerrilla leaders were members of the Republican-Democratic Party, violently opposed to any restoration of the Greek monarchy. Though few, they were able to hamper German efforts to construct fortifications and air bases for the defense of Southern Europe...
Proclaimed as "the men who get the message through," the Signal Corps provides not only specialist training vital to the war effort but also promising of a lucrative career after...