Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them together was the crushing fact that Great Britain, once the great leader of the Western democracies, was broke. This was no mere phrase: like a man whose savings have dwindled away, Britain simply has not got the money to buy what she needs, much less to maintain her vital role in the world...
...time came when Rocchi needed money to buy vital parts. The Citizens' Committee sent a letter. "Most Reverend Father, it is with regret that we notice that you have accomplished nothing with regard to the clock. . . . Please hand over the funds...
...imposed a tight control over the remainder of the $3,750,000,000 loan from the U.S. Nations' Assembly September 16 when the U.S. yesterday referred it to Secretary of State Marshall yesterday told the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro that "the economic rehabilitation of Europe is vital to the economy of this hemisphere...
...Protestant ... I do not think our chief concern about Catholicism should be in terms of school buses or political influence or the separation of church and state. . . . The really vital matter . . . is that for the modern man-and for the likes of me, if you please-the Roman Catholic Church has something to offer which Protestantism too generally isn't offering...
...tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then...