Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress had in its hands last week a form of world power which even Joe Stalin could not match. For Congress was about to settle some vital international matters, and settle them for good...
...aside the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas as a time for nation wide Bible-reading. Congressman Voorhis' reason for wanting an official stamp on such a private activity: "in order that 'in God we trust,' as an expression of our national life, may hold new and vital meaning for all our citizens...
...labor, already off on another tack, hoped that Davis would adopt a more liberal attitude than Vinson's in connection with "fringe" awards, i.e., increases for night-shift differentials, reclassifications, etc., which do not affect basic wage rates. This issue, now vital to the unions, was sizzling on Davis' desk before he had a chance to sit down...
...last week it was falling. If the Germans can pull themselves together, the Allied crossings are likely to be bloodily contested, especially if made in a frontal attack on the Ruhr. The Germans seemed to fear landings north and south of the Ruhr, aimed at quick envelopment of that vital industrial basin. Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment...
With test tube and spectroscope, the metallurgists reconstructed a revealing picture of arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...