Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Defies. Bulgaria, vital pawn in the giants' chess game, entered an uneasy new year. King Boris III, who prefers his English cousins any day to his Hohenzollern relatives, had told Adolf Hitler at Berlin that, rather than see German troops in his peasant kingdom, he would abdicate. Last Week he retired 27 high Army officers who had demanded that Bulgaria join the Axis and, in a stormy session of the Sobranje, Premier Bogdan Filoff silenced pro-Nazi deputies with a defiant "No foreign regimes for Bulgaria." With the arrival of the first Nazi units at the frontier, Bulgarian...
...score of leadership Wendell Willkie, who, although a businessman, convinced 22,500,000 voters that he spoke for a vital cause, performed more strikingly...
...increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
...London's vital outpost, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's, he prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...Motors last summer to join the National Defense Advisory Commission (for nothing) as head of its production section. Big Bill Knudsen had kept his mouth shut while the press reported instances of slow delivery on airplanes, tanks & guns, of scrambled priorities for defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week he sounded off. The occasion was the National Association of Manufacturers' annual convention; the place was the ballroom of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. In Big Bill's audience...