Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Service. In Southsea, England a notice was posted on the wall of the Tudor Rose Cafe, where bosomy Marian Weeks was employed: "Patrons are kindly requested not to waste the waitress's time by asking for her vital statistics . They are 41½, 26, 37. 'S true...
...their own vital statistics: the average TV comedy writer is 38.8 years old. Most of them are married, come from large cities, have had some college education, are Jewish and, before becoming writers, did everything from washing dishes to assisting veterinarians...
Before hopping off on his inspection of nuclear-weapons testing grounds at Eniwetok and Bikini, snow-capped Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson watched with vital interest as two B-52 crewmen snapped him into his parachute harness...
...Heart of Norway Spruce, by Theodores Stamos, 33, was acquired by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Corcoran Director Hermann Williams calls it "a characteristic example of one of the strongest and most vital phases of contemporary expression currently in vogue. Stamos has consistently been one of the chief American exponents of this type of painting. Its range of communication is the emotional reaction on the part of the beholder to its suggestive and subtle arrangements of forms and colors. Thus its appeal is akin to the appeal of Oriental calligraphy...
After the war Stalin gave him the vital Ministry of Building Materials, then rushed him off to the Ukraine to put out fires of rebellion that the local party boss, another Kaganovich protégé, Khrushchev, seemed unable to handle. Later in Moscow, Kaganovich was placed in charge of labor...