Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Icardi told Sergeant LoDolce that the trigger-happy Communists were losing patience with the mission. If it were not for the major, the mission could forget about politics, start sending back vital military information and getting weapons that would save thousands of American lives. Icardi spoke of sending Holohan "to Switzerland without his shoes"-a partisan expression meaning to kill...
What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...
...Horry did not know was that Mary Eileen's parents knew he had never left Auckland. One of the letters which he had arranged to have posted back from Australia had been opened by the New Zealand wartime censor of outgoing mail, who thus accidentally gave police a vital clue. Confronted by the cops, Horry had a new story: Mary Eileen had paid him to marry her, he said, then eloped with an American G.I. Police found clothes belonging to Mary Eileen in the possession of a woman Horry was living with. They would have charged Horry with murder...
Woodward's process, consisting of 30 steps, begins with ortho toluidine and ends with a compound close to cortisone. A process recently completed by Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Hans Heymann, research fellow in Chemistry, takes four steps and adds a vital oxygen atom to the molecule...
Message -from Ike. In late June, a vital message came to the Eisenhower planners from France. A liberal Republican junketer had had a long talk with Ike. Ike told him, he said, that if there was to be an Eisenhower movement, he knew Harry Darby and trusted him. That was taken as an official blessing for the Darby strategy. Ike also indicated that he was thinking of returning from SHAPE around the "turn of the year." He realized, said the messenger, that if he was to be a candidate, he would have to make some overt act to identify himself...