Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compass had never before dealt with one like it; moreover, he did not take the trouble to consult any available technical manuals for guidance. The altimeters were adjusted by another mechanic, who later told CAB investigators that he could not quite recall whether he had tightened a vital screw...
...except for a handful of strongly fortified district villages, and the province towns of Pleiku, Kontum and Ban Me Thuot, they still range at will through the mountainous countryside. Since the Viet Cong blew out three of Route 19's bridges some six weeks ago, the highlands' vital western tier of towns was accessible only by air. Despite an airlift that brought hundreds of tons a week into Pleiku, supplies were growing critically short when Saigon decided that Route 19 had to be reopened at any price...
Danish Import. Yet Papandreou was still an orator without peer in the land of Demosthenes. And in choosing to attack the monarchy he had a vital issue, for the Greeks have often resented, and sometimes even exiled, a royal family that was originally (in 1863) imported from Denmark...
...share in A-arms-in exchange for Russian agreement to a non-proliferation treaty. MLF has been all but quietly shelved anyway since last December, and Russian Chief Disarmer Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin's parting shot at the last committee meeting was that "the solution of the urgent and vital problem of non-proliferation could be found here and now except for the obstacle of the plan for a NATO multilateral nuclear force...
...months, France has been determinedly negotiating to get its hands on a rich and vital resource: the oil reserves in its former colony, Algeria. Locked in that country's Sahara Desert is 1% of the world's proven reserves-more than 3.6 billion barrels-and 79 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, about 10% of the world's known supply. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, Algeria's new strongman, has been as anxious to get French development help as Ahmed ben Bella before him, and last week in Paris the two governments buried their bitter memories...