Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whom I helped to elect, makes myself and a hell of a lot of other Mountain citizens sick with his anti-Roosevelt policies. I think that he should receive the same punishment that I would have received had I divulged vital military secrets to the entire world. I would also like to state that most of us Mountain boys are not afraid of Herr Hitler or anything he represents, and just as soon as President Roosevelt gives us the green light, we will...
...respect he was certainly right: for a whole week the German Krieg had been without Blitz, a lightning war with the lightning extracted. Nearly three weeks had passed since the Germans announced they had broken the Stalin Line "at all vital points." and vaunted that Kiev was "on the point of falling." It had been two weeks since they announced that the Russians were throwing "their last reserves" into battle. It had been one week since they had spoken complacently of "the battle of annihilation" before Moscow...
...General de Gaulle is doing his part to hold Hitler in check. In Syria Free French and British forces stand guard over the northern approaches to Suez, which in turn guard one approach to Africa. And across two-thirds of the waist of Africa lies French Equatorial Africa, a vital link in one supply line to Egypt, a dagger pointed at Axis Libya, and a possible base for Anglo-U.S. operations along Africa's west coast...
...rushed back to Hanoï from his summer capital near Saigon. An attack on French Indo-China would be a fairly safe bit of summer gardening for Japan: it would not immediately threaten either Britain or the U.S., but would bring Japan closer to The Netherlands East Indies and vital Singapore...
...Azores, the Cape Verde Islands or any other Portuguese possessions. In a press conference Under Secretary Welles was less definite. The U.S., calmly observed Mr. Welles, has no desire to see any change of Portuguese sovereignty of the islands. Nevertheless, he added, President Roosevelt had stated that it was vital to American security that Atlantic outposts "remain in friendly hands...