Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dockers. Coal piled up at the pitheads, steel mills closed, trawlers were laid up for lack of fuel. Commuters, who took to buses, cars and bicycles by the thousands to get to their offices, involved London in a huge traffic snarl. With the nation's vital export trade and its own prestige at stake, Sir Anthony Eden's new Tory government stepped in vigorously. In the Queen's name, Eden...
...Vital Vote. Adding up Odria's record, most Peruvians give him his due but now yearn for a change. Odria knows this; he is honest with himself. "We are Latins," he says. "People are growing a bit tired of me. That is the Latin way." The attention of Peru, and of Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez and other interested bystanders, now centers on the manner of the change, and the man whom Odria will choose to sit in the carved presidential armchair once used by Peru's Conquistador Francisco Pizarro...
...family-his ambitions-if directed equally toward the common good as toward his own betterment will produce the greatest good for all of us." Although there is talk about a greater need for governmental relationships with individuals and with business, said the President, the U.S. must never surrender the vital principle "of living by our own initiative and our individual freedoms to develop ourselves physically, intellectually and spiritually...
...investigator not only loses funds vital for his research, but finds certain doubts suddenly raised about his past, he said...
...proper balance between the claims of liberty and the demands of security is especially important in the government's relations with the press and other media of communication. For the public's natural desire for information presents an obvious challenge to government officials with their natural fear that vital national secrets may be delivered unknowingly into the hands of a potential enemy...