Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Science moved the U.S. closer to wartime self-sufficiency last week in the vital, imported metal manganese. Grey-white and brittle, manganese is a steelmaker's necessity-paradoxically, to make their steel less brittle...
...chaos abroad, and in spite of our conviction that the tragedy is for us as well as them, America does stand in a relatively favored position. It is in our power to direct the course of the war and of the final settlement because our strength is so vital to the Allies. Certainly we should be eager to speed all aid to the anti-Nazi forces. But does that mean that we have no further duty or service to perform for the world? Can we not demand an explanation of why Lord Halifax opposses a federated Europe after...
Adolf Hitler's most vital objective in all Russia is the Caucasus. On that bridge of land between the Black and Caspian Seas lie fields which give Russia 93% of her war-blood: oil. Last week the British appeared to have made the crucial decision to help the Russians keep Hitler away from Caucasian oil as long as possible...
...conquered Yugoslavia to other fields of battle, Serb guerrillas collected in the dark mountains and tangled forests of their back country. Officers and men of Yugoslavia's shattered, scattered army joined them. They organized the guerrillas, who began to raid German garrisons, occupy villages, cut rail lines to vital Black Sea ports. Last week they struck hard. Enraged by the execution of 50 hostages as "intellectual instigators" of the Zagreb telephone ex change explosion that killed five Germans (TIME, Sept. 22), revolutionary Chetniks seized the town of Srpska Mitrovitza, disarmed and kidnapped its German garrison. Twelve thousand Chetniks attacked...
...driven close to 400 miles through Texas. He swung sharp east and flung himself on the defenses at the back door of Shreveport. His 41st Armored Infantry made a pass at the Reds' airdrome, reportedly were repulsed. They also established a temporary hold on Shreveport's vital waterworks...