Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bachelor officers' quarters of the U.S. Naval Base at Key West. Behind a steel table stood the President, looking a bit thin about the face and neck, but tanned and healthy. "First of all," he said to the reporters, "the doctor tells me that what he calls my vital capacity is very much improved. I don't know...
Flood control is vital in California, where the nightmare is water-too much in the rainy north, too little in the arid south. Key to California's burgeoning economy is a multimillion-dollar system of dams and reservoirs that channels northern water into the fertile but dry Central Valley and the water-starved cities of the booming south. But no flood-control program is watertight, and California's is far from complete. Last week, in the wake of northern floods that cost $170 million and 74 lives, Californians were grateful for the dams they have, but bitterly regretted...
French officials are sober today, even if a bit hung-over from their months-long political binge. Presented by Monday's election with a Poujadist bloc of 51 seats on the far right and 153 Communist seats on the left, France's vital but anemic center finds itself further weakened while caught between two much-strengthened hostile parties. No single conceivable alliance has emerged with a majority or a claim to run the government...
Britain. Down from 60,000 to 34,000, but some Red cells in vital strategic industries, e.g., dockyards and electrical industries...
...disks, shipped in from England, are well-engineered, have quiet grooves and vital sound...