Word: vital
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...many small farming communities the ripple effect is wrenching. In Melbourne, Iowa (pop. 500), a 100-year-old town halfway between Chicago and Omaha, the brick fronts on Main Street were dog-eared before the current recession. But the pervasive gloom is something new. "Our vital signs are not very good in this town," says Gary Northrup, vice president of Melbourne Savings Bank. "Melbourne's best days may be behind it. Farmers have no money to spend. When they hurt, the town dies a little...
...director of the West Point band, said. "I'm afraid that there's a little thing called common sense, courtesy and manners which were forgotten [when the Band performed]. There are so many good things which can be done by a band. All they are doing is destroying a vital part of the American music program...
...cannot tell you what my mission is all about, only that I am carrying vital messages concerning the implementation of the highly classified Plan Crimson...
...carrying coded messages vital to the proper deployment of the troops. If I am caught, the enemy will try to break the code, but it will not succeed. The messages are written in a rarely used cipher called Multiflex--entailing a lot of Kings write and 38 Veer and 34 Dive and Able Baker Charlie, play-pass, hide the QB, flee-flicker type stuff--which only a small circle of friends known as the Harvard football team can turn into ordinary English. I will never tell the secret. They may torture me, but they will only get name, rank group...
Despite the differences in their attitudes toward Harvard, despite the disparities among their chosen fields of study, despite dissimilarities in their personalities which are manifest even in interviews, the returned Mormon missionaries display one vital characteristic in common: their faith. John Beck summarized the situation neatly when he stated, "The most important thing, if you're going to do a mission, is to believe in it." And they...