Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last October 3,000 mountaineer soldiers, well-equipped by Tibetan standards with castoff British battle gear, held the vital frontier fortress of Chamdo, 370 miles east of Tibet's capital, Lhasa. They were preparing for an orthodox daylight attack by the invading Red Chinese...
After days of heated discussion, the doctors agreed that the steroids are still a deep mystery. They control in some way many vital activities of the body, especially those concerned with reproduction and growth. But no one knows how they work. No doctor can predict for sure how each patient will be affected. Until the central facts have been discovered, the experts agreed at Cuernavaca, the steroids will remain an exciting, disorderly frontier of medical science...
...said, would let the shark gobble Asia and, with it, the Middle East and Africa. "They are resigned to this because they believe that we and Western Europe do not have the strength to defend both Asia and Western Europe . . . For Western Europe, it is said, is the vital seat of power and the only permanent head for the Russian serpent, which has its coils in so many satellite states of Europe and Asia...
...called in by Carolyn Joan's family doctor was convinced that cancer was present. When the Purcells refused to let him remove one of her eyes, he took her case to the staff specialists at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital. Their conclusion was that immediate operation was vital...
...Mail" section of the CRIMSON is a kind of sounding board, it might be profitable to get a cross section of university opinion on this issue of priorities. I merely wish to eliminate the most insidious element of our inevitable opportunism from a matter so vital to everyone. It is going to be extremely difficult fighting alongside these whom we consider inferior to us. Perhaps the basic issue is not priorities at all, but rather the determination of the values for which we will supposedly he fighting...