Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Secretary of the Navy in World War I, when he first emerged as a farsighted, clearheaded, efficient public servant. Franklin Roosevelt laid up war materials for two years, preparing the Navy so thoroughly that less foresighted War Department chiefs had to beg Woodrow Wilson to give them vital materials out of Mr. Roosevelt's hoarded plenty. More than any man's, his was the vision that saw the need of mining the North Sea's northern entrance, the strength to override the two Admiralties that said "impossible," the ability to get the minefields laid that helped...
...Washington came five reports from, dissimilar European sources, each stating that Gamelin had been executed, as had also General Andre Georges Corap, who had commanded the French Ninth Army at the vital Ardennes sector of the Maginot Line extension when the Nazis broke through...
...Other Steps." Although the Red Army has spent the time since the Finnish War nursing a black eye and tucking in its shirttails, there are indications that Russia might be willing to help the Allies-at least to the extent of complete stoppage of vital exports to Germany. Russia would like to let the present belligerents wear each other out and then communize them. At present the war is too one-sided, might end too soon. It is to Russia's interest to prolong it by helping the Allies...
...have developed. The project is designed to provide the School with a record of the activities and experience of its alumni which should be of permanent as well as possible immediate significance. For if a national crisis should arise in this period of war, this record should be of vital aid in determining what policy our government should folow...
...fact the German forces were in the immediate vicinity of four French cities vital to the defense of Paris and the salvation of the major French armies...