Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reasserted America's vital interest in strengthening economic ties with other free nations...
...answer, and Martha Sue's lawyer withdrew the question. But Donald's lawyer insisted on an answer. Refusing again, Glisson was slapped with a $50 fine and a ten-day suspended jail sentence for contempt of court by Circuit Judge John F. Kizer. The intimacy issue was vital to his decision, said the judge, and Tennessee law recognizes privileged communication only between lawyer and client...
...today expects the church-Methodist or other-to say or do anything vital or relevant to human well-being?" asked retiring Methodist President Harold Roberts. Methodism appeared to outsiders to be "irrelevant in the contemporary situation," declared former President Donald Soper amid halfhearted cries of "No, No!" Insisted Soper: "I do not believe with the fervor I had 20 years ago that there is any permanence in the Methodist Church as a separate institution. Are we not seeing with the insight of a century a process which is inexorable...
...Middle East crisis and its threat to U.S. interests gave urgent importance to a vital but little known-and less used-safeguard for American companies abroad. The safeguard: a program under which the U.S. Government insures overseas investment against the classic risks of expropriation, blocked profits...
...this surprising turn seemed to be popular dissatisfaction over Finland's economic slide and the ruling center parties' failure to stop it. Over the past four years Cabinet after Cabinet has fumbled and drifted while inflation soared 32%. High-priced Finnish export industries lost out in vital foreign markets, and unemployment rose last winter to 6% of the labor force. In last week's election, right and left gained at the expense of the center. Many other voters stayed home in disgust. The irondisciplined Communists, while increasing their total popular vote by only 17,000, captured...