Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military airmail routes, agitated for a strong air arm. As World War II came to the Americas, he took command of the air force on northeastern Brazil's strategic bulge. A little later, while American engineers and Brazilian laborers feverishly hacked out bases in the jungle for the vital air route to North Africa, Gomes backed them up with all his might...
...vital link in the chain of eaters and eaten are daphnia, or water fleas. These swarming, near-microscopic relatives of crabs and lobsters are the staff of life for many other aquatic species, which are ultimately the food of fish. But if DDT gets into their water, it knocks the daphnia cold. A single pound of DDT in a 38-acre pond averaging ten feet in depth, warns Professor Anderson, is enough to kill the daphnia-and thus eventually starve the fish...
...story might have been different. But there it was: in an official exchange of notes made public last week, Canada dropped her option on the 550-mile Canol pipeline (TIME, March 5), built by the U.S. at a cost of $134 million when oil in the north seemed a vital requirement against a possible Japanese invasion of Alaska. Now Canol was on the open market, and there were no takers...
...have been whispered about. But they could never be fully confirmed. Reason: before his death, Thackeray told his daughter, Anne, to see to it that there were no Thackeray biographies. She did-by the simple expedient of locking away the bulk of her father's correspondence and other vital data...
...born expatriate, who has lived in England for more than 20 years and has made the life and times of Elizabeth his specialty (England's Elizabeth; Sir Wal ter Raleigh; The Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth...