Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic aims have not changed much since 1943, but they seem all the more vital today in a post-war America that seems content with Herman Wouk or Anne Morrow Lindbergh as culture, or will sit by quietly as it is told that nuclear radiation is a) dangerous, b) harmless, c) over its head, or d) none of its business...
Scrivner discussed the senior's increasing realization that there is "no real truth," a realization which comes at last when one asks his professor a vital question and receives as an answer, "I don't know...
...flew off to a Baghdad Pact meeting in Karachi, tough Premier Adnan Menderes had the look of a man well satisfied with things. As his plane winged eastward, he could look pleasantly down on Anatolia, usually brown, now lushly green. Six weeks of rain had changed the vital wheat crop prospects from poor to good...
...force. From his sanctuary in the high Sierra Maestra his 100-odd men swooped down on the army garrison of the tiny Oriente town of Uvero, killing eleven of Batista's soldiers and wounding 18. In Havana, Castro supporters who had tunneled under a street to a vital power cable set off 50 sticks of dynamite and crippled the capital for 57 hours...
...debate. Francis Williams, Fleet Street's most astute observer, even went so far as to say: "This is not a crisis of one industry. What is involved is the whole position of the press as a social force in Britain: a major threat to principles that are as vital to the process of democracy as is the freedom of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and the right of association...