Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braves still hold a one-half game lead oevr the defending champion Brooklyn Dodgers but they are all even in the vital games lost column...
...Vital Statistics. The plan envisions the most immense operation in oil logistics in human history. The Suez Sea Lift calculates that Western Europe's oil deficit would be made up in two major ways...
...real point was a point of law and order: it must be shown that other nations cannot deprive the Western powers of their right or threaten their vital interests with reckless impunity. If Nasser got away with his grab unpenalized, other Arabs in other lands might take it as a precedent for grabs of their own-at British and U.S. oil and pipelines. And if Nasser's truculence became a pattern elsewhere, it could destroy all hopes of fruitful cooperation between the world's free industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries...
...Long in the business of making fertilizer from sewage, the Milwaukee City Sewerage Commission got into a new line through a commercial subcontractor: extracting the growth-vital, anti-anemia vitamin B12 from the fertilizer...
...contemplate the crisis that enfolds it by enfolding its two major European partners, Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, a peace-loving if fiery statesman, said roundly that in his view the British and French had no alternative to risking force if they wished to safeguard their vital interests...