Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cliffe, though taller than the Brown squad, suffered several liabilities which increased the odds against them. The absence of two valuable players robbed them of squad depth vital in face of trouble with fouls. Though the squad had had some good practices during the previous week, they had not played a regular game since the middle of December. The Cliffe's Kathy Fulton was slowed by sprained leg muscles throughout Saturday night's game...
Fulton explained. "We were all ready for the game, we were all pretty psyched. But we just weren't moving. Nothing broke for us." Guyton agreed saying. "We were missing the vital spark--whatever that...
...believe that one could extract "essences" from nature-shapes that symbolized different kinds of force, growth and élan vital, and that constituted the inner structure of reality. This belief, which owed as much to Mme. Blavatsky and her ilk as to Henri Bergson, was common among early abstract artists. Its embodiment, for Dove, was in works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent...
...crops, worldwide inflation and soaring petroleum costs. Because the government paid such low prices for basic agricultural commodities, farmers last year smuggled more than $50 million worth of sisal, cattle, cotton, cashew nuts and corn across the border into neighboring Kenya, where prices were higher, thereby depriving Tanzania of vital foreign exchange. The country's hard currency reserves, in fact, have fallen from over $100 million a year ago to only $11 million at present...
Since most military projects are intimately involved with national security, can't they be excused from the requirements of environmental law? That was the question at issue last week when a federal judge in Washington, B.C., refused to issue an injunction to halt construction of a base vital to the Navy's $15 billion Trident submarine program. Judge George Hart's ruling set the stage for a February trial that will pit environmentalists and landowners against the Navy and a new type of "public interest" law firm...