Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of the Coral Sea, the Army bombed the Jap Fleet for three days without knowing, till Army pilots found the Navy in action, that the Navy was coming in too. Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone (TIME, June 1). The minds of generals and admirals, although much improved by six months' education in real war, had still much to learn about mutual cooperation...
...Such tiny craft are of extremely limited range, as little as 200 miles by U.S. Navy estimates. The obvious conclusion was that the Japanese Navy had a force off Australia's southeast coast, perhaps 1,000 miles farther south than it had penetrated during the Coral Sea engagement. Vital sea routes to the U.S. and New Zealand, as well as Australia's economic heart, were again threatened...
Strategy of Diversion. The concentration of U-boats in American waters revealed the Axis strategy: so to disrupt shipping that naval strength would be diverted from its more vital convoy duties...
...rarely "a prolonged sacrament"-the description of the life of the Indian given in Mr. Loo's catalogue. Hindu and Buddhist art, arising from intense spiritual concentration, assumed symbolic forms and sectarian twists that only long study can clarify. U.S. amateurs can merely distinguish between Hindu art (oddly vital) and Buddhist art (oddly serene...
...They are self-supervising. Damage to the sheath lets gas escape; and this warning drop in pressure sends crews to repair the cable before the vital copper conductors are hurt...