Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic aid to the world's underdeveloped countries "regardless of what the Russians do." Said the Committee for Economic Development, in a 49-page report on behalf of its 150 businessmen and educators: "More active U.S. participation in developing underdeveloped countries is needed not only to protect our vital immediate interests; it is needed also to help the underdeveloped countries build the kinds of societies with which the West can live in cooperation and peace in the long...
...Economy. Butler's amber light had obviously not been enough to slow down Britain's course towards inflation. Last month Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped to a figure lower than at any time since 1952. Instead of closing, the trade gap was widening alarmingly. Vital coal production, which had dropped 2.000,000 tons last year, was still dropping. Harold Macmillan. the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, said ruefully: "One of the Prince Regent's physicians earned a certain notoriety, though not perhaps very large fees, by telling his royal patient that all that...
While the State Department's position on the jets will enrage the Arabs and aggravate the French, it cannot further either of its conflicting aims in the Middle East--mutual security or the protection of Israel. Israel is not a part of the vital northern tier which Dulles feels must be armed to save the Middle East from Communist attacks. Nor would the jets really give Israel internal security: she could never maintain enough to forestall a large-scale aggression, while just a few warplanes might stimulate that aggression. As Dulles himself has pointed out, Israel is too small...
Contending that College and Radcliffe undergraduates were "mature enough to discuss vital problems like these constructively," Fletcher said he was "surprised" at the decision. "I hope they change their minds," he added...
...School-of-Paris moderns half a century ago, the young pioneers of American painting crave appreciation. When it is not forthcoming, some of them sulk and some shrug. But none of them seems to laugh. "To refashion the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, means an endless vital activity," they argue with Goethe. They solemnly reiterate that since impressionism, cubism and abstractionism have proved meaningful over the years, abstract expressionism will, too. And curiously enough, this wishful argument-by-analogy does cow some critics and win over others...