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Word: vital (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Punting, or the lack of it, was the main factor in the Dunster win. The Funsters could kick; Krikland seemed unable to. Dunster scored in the first half on an end sweep by Ky Dewan. The vital extra point was scored by halfback Steve West on a line buck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Dunster Football Victors | 10/15/1954 | See Source »

...week as the arrest of one Communist-hunting policeman mush roomed into a major scandal involving high government servants, top state secrets and espionage. While Premier Pierre Mendès-France labored across the channel at the London Conference, a dizzying succession of arrests, disclosures and confessions revealed that vital secrets of France's National Defense Committee had methodically leaked to the Communists. There were suggestions that the secrets had been going to other foreign powers as well. The permanent secretary-general of the Defense Committee was indicted for negligence. Two of his highest-ranking aides were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Leaks | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...strategic stockpile. Cost of grant-aid to the U.S.: $17 million-10? for each U.S. citizen. Two and a half years later, Bolivia still needs more loans and grants. But it has a better chance than ever before, because it has now completed-with U.S. help-an economically vital road linking its high Andes and rich lowlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Thanks | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...another vital industry, things looked much brighter than they did only a few short weeks ago. Auto dealers reported that their stocks of new cars were down to 402,000, about 11% below a month ago, and the lowest level in more than a year and a half. Last year at this time a wave of "blitz" selling swept the auto industry as dealers frantically tried to clear out their 1953 stocks. This year no blitz selling has yet appeared. To get ready for the tough competition ahead, Studebaker cut prices on its 1955 models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boom on Boom | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...problem of effective inspection and control becomes even more acute under the second phase of the plan. During this period all countries would end the manufacture of atomic weapons. Although the Soviet finally seems to agree that inspection is a vital part of a disarmament program, the U.S. must be sure that the inspection control commission is ready to operate before atomic reduction, and that Russia will allow a thorough survey of its plants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atomic Agreement | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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