Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seven Samurai and Rashomon, the relationship begins as an equally gratuitous intrusion. Mifune the bandit is a whirlwind of more-than-human vital force, neither good nor evil, which attaches itself to one side of the protagonists' drama...
...clear about what is involved today in Southeast Asia. We are talking about the vital national interests of the United States in the peace of the Pacific. We are talking about the appetite for aggression-an appetite which grows upon feeding and which is proclaimed to be insatiable...
Interdict & Inhibit. Rusk went on to say, "Were the insurgency in South Viet Nam truly indigenous and self-sustained, international law would not be involved. But the fact is that it receives vital external support-in organization and direction, in training, in men, in weapons and other supplies...
Ingenious Theory. What was missing from the mathematical calculations, Dr. Eckert thinks, is a vital assumption: the moon has no heavy core like the earth's. Instead, it must have a heavy shell with lighter material inside. This would make the moon more reluctant to turn on its axis, and the extra resistance would account for its computer-calculated shift of orbit...
...President may be withholding the appointments to use as leverage on management and labor to prevent a national steel walkout. But even if his reasons are not so misplaced, his tardiness only frustrates the implementation of needed legislation protecting a vital civil right...