Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among these vital targets, said Berlin officials, were the house of the Union of German Engineers, which has given the world many a scientific blessing; the Academy of Art, where the decadence has supposedly been distilled from modern painting; a home for aged Jews; the innocent Brandenburg Gate; a gymnasium; a bed of roses in the garden of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels...
Congress was not in session. To delay might mean losing the chance. Napoleon might change his mind. It was of vital importance in the future security of the young nation. Jefferson made the deal. President Roosevelt suggested that Jefferson's situation was a parallel...
...things which the sleepy British intelligence service does profess to know is that Germany has vast stores of ammunition, explosives and other vital material tucked away in her wooded hills. Last week the R. A. F. got its orders to go after those stores ruthlessly...
...Mediterranean. The U.S. destroyer deal had opened the way for a new and bolder British strategy in the Mediterranean: to harass, with the help of reinforcements, Italian bases and communications to such an extent that Mussolini would be forced to bring his main fleet into play to protect the vital line to Libya. Then, at last, His Majesty's Navy might be able to work up something more exciting than a game of drop the handkerchief...
Like G. E., like Pullman, Inc. (indicted in July), like Aluminum Co. (entering its third consecutive year in the courts), many of Arnold's corporate victims are vital cogs in defense. Arnold himself confesses that an anti-trust indictment, even if successfully defended, is itself a punishment, "a financial hazard which should not carelessly be imposed on business." It is also demoralizing to the executives indicted and takes their valuable time. Hence, with the Defense Commission seeking all the businessmen's cooperation they can get, the heat is on Arnold to go slow...