Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday Times: "Unless I, as a soldier, am grossly at fault in my estimate of Cyprus ... it has none or practically none of the requisites of an efficient military base." Unshaken by this argument, Lennox-Boyd last week clung stubbornly to the line that Cyprus is strategically vital and that self-determination must wait. If Greek Cypriots continued to insist on union with Greece, he said, the "inevitable" result would be partition of Cyprus' 3,572 square miles into Greek and Turkish zones...
...another bountiful year for Canada's economy as it was for the U.S. (see BUSINESS). Canada's economic boss, Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, surveying the business-performance charts last week, found that every vital line-production, employment, income and investment-continued sharply upward during...
...fortunate," said Dr. Ingalls, to have escaped "the worst possible consequences." His poor vision has been largely corrected by glasses; his malformed jaw is being straightened by braces (though he will always have tooth defects) ; he has a hearing aid to overcome deafness; and the scrambling of his most vital blood vessels has been fixed by a "blue-baby" operation...
...loyalty from Chiang to Mao-as Cambodia's Chinese colony apparently did recently-Diem swore that "Before I die, I will Vietnamize Cholon." He issued a series of decrees declaring all Viet Nam-born Chinese to be Vietnamese citizens and prohibiting foreigners, i.e., Chinese, from engaging in eleven vital trades, from rice milling to brokerage...
...first time last week, the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed the full size and scope of one of the nation's newest and most vital industries. In a few brief years the mining and processing of uranium has grown from a midget industry into a giant, with an output worth more than $100 million a year. In 1956 alone, the AEC's figures revealed, the industry processed 3,000,000 tons of raw ore into 6,000 tons of uranium concentrate (one ton of concentrate contains 11 Ibs. of U-235, the reactor fuel...