Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly Wilson is not about to abandon Britain's vital military interests in India, Malaysia, and East Africa. The Singapore base is the key to the defense of Malaysia against the hostile Indonesian government. Indian Ocean islands form a chain of British outposts from Australia to Africa...
...country without a formal invitation, and will not promise military aid unless granted facilities from that country which would make the aid effective. Britain, therefore, is forced into dependence on the only other allied power active in the East--the United States. Although Britain does not share America's vital interest in Vietnam, she will try to keep military influence in the other Far Eastern troublespots...
...answer some of the questions. Venus II passed within 15,000 miles of the planet. It relayed to Soviet stations measurements of heat, radiation and meteorite activity before its radio failed, probably as a result of passing near Venus' atmosphere. Venus III may have sent even more vital information, if its radio did not fail too soon. As it plummeted toward impact, Venus Ill's telemetry abruptly ceased. In any case, the flight represented a remarkable display of space navigation. On the heels of it, the U.S. reaffirmed plans to send Mariner V to Venus...
...producer out of business. While wage and material costs have risen steadily, the price of gold has been pegged by the Government at $35 per oz. since 1934, creating a perpetual squeeze on profits. For three years during World War II, the Government suspended gold mining, transferred workers to vital war industries. Many owners simply decided not to reopen once the war was over; most of those who did soon went under...
...need for a rational birth control policy were not so vital, last year's defeat would be a fit subject for a Buchwaldian parody...