Word: vital
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...while receiving advanced naval training in Britain two decades ago. He is alleged to have been paid $250,000 for his information. Because the Simonstown base is located on one of the world's busiest maritime routes, around the Cape of Good Hope, it serves as a vital Western surveillance post. Gerhardt thus had access to secrets of international strategic importance. At the very least, as commodore of a dock that refitted and refurbished most of South Africa's fleet, he was in a position to provide Moscow with information about electronic and weapons systems, those of South...
More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...
When Plante became friendly with Sonia Orwell she was in her late 40s, subject to spells of depression and illness. Invariably smashed at the literary parties she gave or attended, Sonia yelled insults at her friends, including Plante. Where was the luminous, vital woman whom Or well had been moved to marry, three months before his death from TB in 1950? Only in an appendix does the reader learn that Sonia was prodigiously well read, wrote petitions on behalf of imprisoned intellectuals around the world and paid her friends' medical bills...
...closing of Hudson's represents far worse news for Detroiters and others concerned about American cities than other examples of the effects of the failing economy. Detroit will never be the-same without Hudson's, a 25-story urban treasure that pioneered the department store concept. A vital aspect of daily life in the city is now gone. Even if the city hit hardest by the nation's economic tumble witnesses an economic recovery, it will do so without its century-old focal point, an institution which offered a revered common experience to the urban and suburban, rich and poor...
Former Alabarna football Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant was admitted to a hospital last night with chesk pains. A spokeswoman for Druid City Hospital said that Bryant's vital signs were stable...