Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy had amassed all the necessary ingredients for a first-class revolution. The war effort continued apathetic, ineffectual and, to many Italians, completely senseless. Favored Fascist bigwigs prospered from wartime grafts. Benito Mussolini lost additional face as Nazi officials took over key posts in vital ministries. Inflation increased. The tightened food-rationing system reeled along under the weight of flagrant violations. Military morale, ever feeble, ebbed to a new low as the British Army pushed into Libya...
Tanks can be stopped by fast-thinking, fast-moving defense. The U.S. Army learned that vital lesson last week during a five-day sham battle over slightly rolling country, straddling the borderline between the Carolinas, on a terrain well gridded with roads-good tank country...
General Hugh S. Johnson took a room down the hall from General John Joseph Pershing in Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital, "for a complete test of all vital functions to see how badly I have slipped...
Communications Vital...
...that importance does not necessarily mean dullness, but will then creep back into his historic little cubby-hole, into that dictionary significance which is only one shelf above oblivion. But a recital including works by these men, work which if not memorable is at least fresh and sturdy, and vital to an understanding of the Bach tradition, should be noted down as a major event...