Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political unity. There was no concentration of Negroes in one area; instead, they were split up in neighborhood pockets scattered the length and the breadth of the city. Served by a lackadaisical Negro weekly paper, they had no ready means of communication. More than that, says Martin King, the "vital liaison between Negroes and whites was totally lacking. There was not even a ministerial alliance to bring white and colored clergymen together. This is important. If there had been some communication between the races, we might have got some help from the responsible whites, and our protest might not have...
...obtained yet for definite stoppage of Egypt's belligerence and sea blockade of Israel." Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet had decided that until such guarantees are obtained, Israel will defy the world. Said an Israeli spokesman: "We are down to rock bottom. Our stand is vital for Israel's security and there is no further room for retreat...
What galled pressmen most, beyond their inability to go after the news in a vital part of the world, was the inference, however unintentional, to be drawn from Dulles' ban: a seeming fear that American reporters who went to China could be led astray. The New York Times, four of whose staffers were among the 18 U.S. newsmen invited by the Chinese last August, complained that the Government appeared to believe that the correspondents "would write what the Chinese Reds wanted, and would help the Communists...
...relays are vital, Cairns will triple, Wharton and Morris double, and the rest will be chosen from Al Gordon, Dave Brahms, Norris, Dave Spinney, Bob Weil, Dave McLean, or any other able-bodied volunteers...
...Felden's pet chimps are among the best of dozens of characters in A Legacy, a first novel that British critics rated as the richest windfall of 1956. Clearly, Author Bedford has written not only a good novel but one that touches her contemporaries in a vital, highly sensitive nerve. That nerve is the anguished one of old Europe. A Legacy describes the Victorian and Edwardian heyday when well-to-do men and women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled...