Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few days the pace has quickened. Last week three transport planes left Europe for Ethiopia and are now airlifting food from Asmara, near the Red Sea port of Assab, to Mekele. The European Community, which organized the operation, eventually hopes to deploy ten planes. "The airlift is vital," says Priestley. "But 700,000 people in Tigre need food immediately, and the aircraft must be backed up by trucks. If we don't start widespread distribution, there will be famine camps...
...might be a little rusty in the beginning," Cleary said. "But some of those kids haven't been home since September. It's vital that they get home for Christmas...
...what is the issue of 'vital importance' for which you pleaded with us to fly to Boston?" The question came from my mother, who, I suspected, knew damn well why I had asked them to come...
...final minute of play, Counts missed one and Marshall missed two vital shots. But Gielen hit his two to put the game...
Brooks said he was able to clean up the four-inch laceration in the liver during surgery, insuring that Keller would not lose a substantial portion of the vital organ...