Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas called for replacement of officials he said had permitted vital missile decisions to "get lost somewhere in the Defense Department...
...Although he can still be asked to serve on courts anywhere in the country, he knows that he can always disqualify himself from cases involving civil rights. Furthermore, his presence and the very respect he cites for the judiciary could have added substantially to the prestige of a vital but controversial commission...
Retirement in Triumph. Costantini's greatest coup was brought off in 1936, when he copped a copy of a highly confidential report of the British government, which declared that "no vital British interests exist in Ethiopia which would impose on His Majesty's government the necessity to resist by force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring...
Electronic countermeasures have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
...Thanks to his Air Force training, he knows he can walk into a big-pay position in the aircraft industry any time he decides to quit the service. On top of that, the sergeant, who is a line chief, has the satisfaction of doing a job that is vital to his country's survival, and on top of that he has the pleasure of rigging the craziest kite a grown-up boy ever had: the $9,000,000, 400,000-lb., eight-jet, 650-m.p.h...