Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josh White suffers from having been over-recorded, which means that his audiences know his songs as well as he does. Yet he has to be seen to be appreciated; he is a powerful, vital and ingratiating man. In some concerts he has depended too much on his considerable charm, and simply gone through the motions on his songs. Last night he sang ten ballads and blues with drive and bite, and succeeded completely in keeping his familiar material alive...
...take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches; nor do news pictures imperil security, since the most vital secrets of a missile are locked in its guidance box, deep in the bird's skin...
...recoilless rifles, to Jordan. And determined not to let Syria's new pro-Russian regime lull everyone to sleep with sweet talk, Washington did what it could to make plain its concern about Syria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). This was a clear declaration of intent to defend vital U.S. interests in the Mideast, but so far the initiative there remained with the U.S.S.R...
SYRIA sits at such a vital crossroads-between Europe, Africa and Asia-that the traffic through it has always been heavy, and its inhabitants have never had much chance for peace and quiet. Often a battleground, usually under foreign occupation, the area has no indigenous name; the word Syria was adopted by the Greeks to describe the rich, wide crescent stretching from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates...
...point, and after all banks had closed for the weekend, Gaillard was ready for his big step. It was devaluation, but with a difference. The franc was devalued to 420 to the dollar in all tourist transactions. Imports in effect would cost 20% more, except on those imports deemed vital to the continuing expansion of French industry. On these "exceptions," such as fuel and key raw materials (wool, cotton and steel products), accounting for about 60% of French imports, the rate would remain 350 to the dollar. The calculated effect: a cut in import spending. Next, to give France...