Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public can now reappraise the merits of the ''economy-minded" 88th Congress. Space satellites, B-52s, and vital foreign aid seem to have taken a secondary role to new Senate offices and pork-barrel legislation...
...Republicans were led by their old hero, Ismet Inonu, 73, World War II President and chosen successor of the late great Kemal Ataturk himself. They charged that Menderes' reckless extravagance had only created economic chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were...
Even before the strike began, the government's plans went into effect. Municipal bus and streetcar drivers who had planned to cripple their vehicles by removing vital parts were frustrated by marines who began riding with them hours before the deadline. During the strike, most offices and stores stayed open, restaurants and movie houses operated, newspapers appeared on schedule...
...Whitman to Archibald MacLeish, from Thoreau to Thornton Wilder, it has diligently cultivated the best U.S. writers of every decade since its founding. In its broader role as an exponent of the American idea, it has molded its mandate to the times and, at its best, brought to trie vital issues of the day that "nervous force" without which, as Atlantic Editor Walter Hines Page said in 1902, "a magazine deserves...
Author Beebe contributes his usual flowery prose, entirely in the form of lengthy captions. But aside form its 500-odd pictures, the book has little to offer; it is badly organized and rather inaccurately written in regard to such vital matters as locomotive names and wheel arrangements. The fans, no matter how pleased they may be with the photographs, will most certainly take note of this...