Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Fault? Nearly everybody blamed Congress, which still fiddled with conscription, carped at voting the second half of the $11,000,000,000, held up legislation vital in safeguarding and stimulating defense production. Army and Navy officials whose testimony was published last week did indeed put most of the blame on Congress. They also distributed a little elsewhere, by inference put some on themselves...
Simultaneously with this elaborately staged first attack on London, the Luftwaffe launched mass attacks on Birmingham and Rochester, in which their fast-climbing, heavily armed bomber, the Dormer 215, played an important part. On Aug. 18 they flew up the Thames Estuary and mass-attacked London again. One vital thing in danger was the city's water supply. Thus, day after day, without intermission, except for an occasional half day of bad weather, the world's No. 1 air force went to the attack...
...Lord Linlithgow, and since the War Advisory Council would have no power over the Imperial General Staff, India gained virtually nothing. With Italians driving into Somaliland, and the enemy threatening Aden and therefore Britain's Near Eastern oil lines, India's aid was last week more vital than ever...
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the lower half of New England are not the U. S. But the first two with their steel mills, coal mines, munitions works, the other with its brass industry, machine shops and airplane-engine factories, play a vital part in U. S. industrial defense. If the industrial plants, railroads and highways of these regions should be progressively destroyed by systematic bombing, or if they should be seized by an invading army, any war effort of the U. S. thereafter would be crippled. The Midlands of England-which TIME maps on the following two pages-mean...
...Brooks heightens the dismal drama of New England's slow decline to which the book always returns. Bit by bit the great tradition ran down like the clocks that "had gone dead in many hamlets that had hummed with life." In the '80s "society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness...