Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARMOR. A new vest of overlapping plastic plates covers all vital body areas and weighs only 4 Ibs. It protects against all thrown objects, grenade and mortar fragments, and bullets moving slower than 1,000 ft. per sec. (which includes a wide variety of small-arms fire from anything but point-blank distance). Men who wear it, says Colonel Applegate, are much more willing to "close": they will perform countermob duties more aggressively...
Streets meticulously ruled by an expert surveyor, law-abiding pedestrians and motorists, and lucid traffic signals all have their charms. Yet whatever the reason, the local conception of the traffic laws leaves Washington a less vital city...
...except a rabbit cares much whether rabbits are male or female, but with dairy cattle, bred for their milk-producing ability, sex is a vital difference. Bhattacharya has now moved to a big cattle-breeding establishment in Schleswig-Holstein to find out whether his simple system can reduce the number of low-value male calves born to German dairy cows. Theoretically it should work the same for all mammals, including humans...
Even in the age of the atom, steel is still the vital measure of industrial might. The Soviet Union has made it national policy to catch up with U.S. steel production, the world's largest, and the other large steel producing nations never cease jockeying for advantage. Since World War II, no nation has reached for big steel status with more success than Japan, whose industry is among the world's most advanced and whose exports have raised the ire of competitors in both the U.S. and Europe. Now Japan has taken over from West Germany...
...hard to. Williams, though he often seems obsessed with other vital centers, is fundamentally concerned with the heart, and in Iguana he sometimes writes about it beautifully. His characters are contraptions and their lives are theatrical tropes, but when they say what they feel, what hurts them and what they long for, they come suddenly alive and bleeding. Strange and disturbing to see contraptions bleed...