Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital Core. For the Thais, proud and sensitive to any hint of interference by farangs or foreigners in their national life, the enormous U.S. buildup is a painful concession to the grim facts of Southeast Asian life. They talk about it as little as they can, admit virtually nothing officially, and have carefully made only gentleman's agreements, one at a time, for U.S. use of their bases. The U.S. in turn respects Thai feelings by trying, as one official puts it, to present a "low silhouette" on the Thai landscape. But inevitably, with the growing accumulation of American...
...thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway to carry vital traffic northward past the capital. It will have the side effect, as did the $20 million Friendship Highway completed two years ago, of opening up vast interior regions of the nation to the capital's culture and economy...
...shadow of the Franco government-has drifted out of touch with almost everything it stands for. Its religion has become one that is imposed rather than preached. "We must identify ourselves with the people, their frustrations and their fulfillment," said one young priest. "The problem is vital, not only for the church in Spain but for Spain itself. Authoritarian governments do not solve problems. They merely postpone them." And what will happen if the church continues its old course? "The lid may blow off and carry the scandal sky-high...
...year stretch for atomic spying, Biochemist Harry Gold, 55, emerged from Pennsylvania's Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary into a drenching rain. "The sun is shining for me," beamed Gold. He had told the Government all about his work as a Communist spy, and had testified in 1951 as a vital Government witness in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I have wiped the slate clean as far as it is possible," he said. "I made a hideous mistake...
...question of when to "pull the plug" and let death occur has acquired new urgency with the practice of transplanting kidneys and other vital organs. Transplant surgeons want organs as fresh as possible; the chance that a cadaver kidney will work well in the recipient patient is vastly increased if it can be removed immediately after circulation has stopped. But in the U.S., as in most countries, it would be illegal to remove a kidney from a patient who has not yet been pronounced dead...