Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries can earn dollars to buy U.S. products...
...diplomatic thinking. The new idea, as radical as the development of the atom bomb, combines two new Navy weapons: the swift, deep-swimming nuclear submarine, and the intermediate-range, shipboard-type ballistic missile, Polaris. Such a mating would permit the far-ranging nuclear subs, lying submerged offshore at vital points around the Eurasian land mass, to launch thermonuclear missiles at any target within 1,500 miles of their position, and be all but immune to counterattack...
...quality of T.R. that added the vital plus to his program was that he had learned, during long and full years of growth and experience, joy and hardship, that compromise is no substitute for decisiveness, that inspiration is made out of specific minute-by-minute leadership. He had also absorbed out of a long career of professional politics, precincts and patronage a healthy notion about how the presidency ought...
According to Dr. Schatz, the dinosaurs were sluggish beasts whose metabolism (vital chemical processes) was so slow that they could keep their vast bodies alive without a great deal of food. In their age, he thinks, the earth's atmosphere did not contain so much oxygen as it does today. The dominant plants were mostly gymnosperms (conifers, ginkgoes, etc.) that did not excrete so much oxygen as modern plants...
Even the dealers who rent coronets and pseudoermine capes will benefit from an increased and more fashion-conscious clientele. The only potential danger involved is that the Queen someday might decide to pack the upper chamber with peeresses to swing votes vital to her sex. But this threat seems negligible, and the first action the sovereign might take is to appoint Princess Margaret Lady Chancellor...