Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vital questions, Turkey and Iran, the three reached no understanding at all. Stalin was said to have told Byrnes and Bevin that Russia must have all of Turkey that ever belonged to the Tsars. Russia also wanted control of the Dardanelles. As for Azerbaijan, the Russians said that the Red revolt there was "spontaneous and normal," an Iranian matter not a subject for Big Three discussion...
...world as it is today, there are two very great powers [i.e., the U.S. and Russia], and we lie exactly between them . . . the bridgehead of the West in Europe. . . . Our vital interests command us ... to follow a policy of friendship, to the East and to the West, with our eyes open and our hands free...
Mistaken for the highest code in the U.S. Intelligence files, CINCRTO dispatched a plane post haste to deliver the vital missive in a hollow bomb. Fortunately, it arrived in time for a wardroom celebration on the last two inches of scotch in the medical officer's stores...
TIME fails in its duty as a dispassionate narrator of current affairs when it registers more preoccupation with tabloidish crime and divorce stories than with the efforts of a thinking minority to awaken the nation to the vital need for good schools and good teachers...
Whenever the Lion is in trouble the Bear takes a poke at Iran. Thirty-five years ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov made a formula of it: "The English, engaged in the pursuit of political aims of vital importance in Europe, may, in case of necessity, be prepared to sacrifice certain interests in Asia. . . . This is circumstance which we can, of course, exploit for ourselves, as, for instance, in Persian affair...