Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skin cancer and further depletion of the world's oil reserves. Rejecting the Concorde would snub France, but so what? As for Britain, it might be the best thing we could do for it. Maybe we would force the British to face reality and pump money into more vital, potentially profit-making industries...
This year Harvard's rather unheralded divers, led by Dave English, could pick up many vital points. English this winter has varied only between good and excellent in the quality of his diving, while his teammates have looked strong also. Princeton does have a rather good diver, Mallott, but it remains to be seen if he is going to be a factor...
Fingers, toes or the nose and cheeks usually become vulnerable first. As the body tries to conserve heat for vital internal organs in bitter cold, it reduces the flow of warming blood to the extremities. Eventually, if the temperature in the tissue drops low enough, tiny ice crystals begin to form in the watery spaces between the cells. Expanding outward in all directions, the ice ruptures cell membranes and kills the tissue, which turns white, stiff and insensitive to touch...
...Peeping Tom sensation of looking at any person, once alert and vital, now unguarded, ill and unaware of the camera, is repugnant. The end of life, at least, should be private...
Wriston termed the Post story "the moral equivalent of publishing raw data from an outdated FBI file." He insisted that Citi bank's condition is "excellent." Rockefeller called the story "a clear case of irresponsible journalism" and asserted that Chase is "sound, vital and profitable." Comptroller of the Currency James E. Smith noted that all the in formation was taken from outdated reports some l l/2 years old. Both banks have had subsequent inspections and, except for the loan losses, they apparently more than satisfied the examiners. The banks, said Smith, "continue to be among the soundest banking institutions...