Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London British military men confided to newsmen that the Eden government had made its move in the conviction that Israel and the Arab states will be at war within 90 days and that Cyprus must then be transformed into a vital military base. It would need a turn of events of this magnitude to justify what now Deemed to be one of the most muddleheaded decisions of Prime Minister Eden's indecisive tenure...
...Picasso, Leger, and Gris, he protests, in his self-effacing manner, that "I know nothing about aesthetics as a professional discipline or as a philosophical study. But the experience," he continues, "of making a judgment and enjoying a painting in the Fogg--or reading a poem--has been a vital part of my education...
Paul M. Doty, associate profesor of Chemistry, has been chosen to give the 1956 Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Lecture. An expert on biological polymers, vital substances made up of extremely large molecules, he will lecture at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, in the University Museum...
...turn, a more careful check from Congress. The allegation before the current House investigation (headed by Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert) is that the industry's profits are too big. The manufacturers pose a larger question: Are profits big enough to let the industry do the vital defense...
Olivier sees marvelously much, but there is something vital he overlooks: that there was warm blood as well as cold in Richard's medieval veins. By playing it completely cold in the first half of the play, he forfeits much of the sympathy that is due Richard in the second. Nevertheless, give or take a bit here and there, the best actor of his time has presented the moviegoer with the best Richard of this generation. In Shakespeare's words: "The king enacts more wonders than...