Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Need. Robert Wagner Sr. and Morris Javits were faceless in the arriving masses of the 1880s. But, like millions of other groping, bewildered, lonely immigrants, they found a friend in the New York County Democratic organization: Tammany Hall. Whatever its sins-and they were many-Tammany provided a vital service to the U.S. It met the immigrants at the docks, helped them, fed them, found them jobs, guided them through the first terrifying years in their new world. Tammany asked only their vote-which they gladly gave...
...Bradley, admission was vital. The I.L.A. was in a jam. Now before the NLRB is an appeal from its archrival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-backed International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, for an election to determine collective bargaining jurisdiction in the Port of New York. Twice the I.L.A. had scraped through such elections by slim margins-the last time (in 1954) by 263 (out of 18,551) votes...
...users' idea in its most extreme concept-as a huge Western economic club to beat down Nasser-had its flaws for John Foster Dulles as well. For the U.S. aim had to be not only to protect its vital interests and those of its Western allies in the Suez and Middle East, but also to negotiate in a manner that did not draw a permanent cleavage between the Western world and the Arab and Asian countries...
...months, soft-spoken Record-Spinner Shepherd fired off occasional jazz salvos 4½ hours a night, seven nights a week, for Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
AMONG the world's great waterways the mighty Mississippi, Germany's strategic Kiel Canal, the vital Panama and troubled Suez are all familiar names. But one waterway with more importance than fame is a muddy, undramatic complex of barge canals and shallow channels rambling 1,116 miles around the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history...