Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe representatives will be non-voting members of the project, but according to John A. Armstrong '56, temporary chairman, support from Radcliffe is "vital to the success of the project...
...unheralded senior, however, named Sid Pinch, who stands only 5-9, took over Chaptain Flippin's vital position of tailback, and began to do things that only the great Flippin was expected to do. He has scored four touchdowns, and passed for two more. And he leads the team in offense with 564 yards...
...issue involved at the origin of this controversy was not whether Russia should have been brought into the Pacific war-this should have clearly been done at the beginning-but whether we should have made vital territorial concessions at the expense of Chinese sovereignty to induce Russia to come in at the end. On Dec. 13, 1941, I urged that Russia attack immediately from the north. This would have saved countless lives, billions of dollars, and spared the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea and many Pacific islands...
...mightiest of monarchs was dead. The royal embalmers removed most of his vital organs but left enough to show physicians of later ages what ailed him: hardening and narrowing of the vital arteries near the heart. The monarch was Merneptah, Pharaoh of Egypt at the time (some believe) of the Exodus. No fewer than 3,000 years had passed when the chief of the modern world's most powerful state had a heart attack brought on by the same type of disease in the arteries. Yet for all but a handful of these years, nothing had been learned about...
...peace at any price. It is peace with freedom, purchased by those who were willing to fight and die. Last winter, when aggression threatened in the Formosa area, the Congress unitedly authorized the President to use the armed forces of the United States for the defense of our vital interests and of our ally in that area. I believe that this action contributed indispensably to the preservation of peace. Two years ago I said: 'If events are likely which will in fact lead us to fight, let us make clear our intention in advance; then we shall probably...