Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland, carefully correct, unfailingly calls Ike "Mr. President." In the privacy of his office Ike sometimes grows hot under the collar when Knowland challenges a cherished White House plan, but the President is a confirmed Constitutionalist and neither asks-nor expects-Knowland to toe the executive line. On one vital point Ike has no worries: he knows that honest Bill Knowland, whatever his personal stand on an issue, will report the Eisenhower views to the Senate faithfully, accurately and dispassionately...
When doctors suspect disease in a deep-seated vital organ, e.g., the heart or liver, it may be dangerous or downright impossible to take a tissue sample (biopsy specimen) for microscopic examination. Biochemistry may supply a neat if not simple solution, says Dr. Felix Wróblewski of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. Instead of cutting for a tissue sample, it may be enough for the doctor to get a little blood from the patient and analyze its enzymes...
...whole area's economy. A drop in coal output forced Poland to close plants and trim rail schedules, and the Poles have sharply reduced coal exports to satellite neighbors to give priority to their own ailing economy. Because of the cutback in Polish coal, East Germany's vital metalworking industry has been seriously crippled. "The coal problem." said the party organ Neues Dentschland last month, "is a question of our entire people's economy." Industrial production may have to be curtailed in Czechoslovakia, which leans heavily on Polish coal. Battered Hungary's coal industry is operating...
Britain should be reluctant "to move closer to this continental community," Gaitskell said, "unless the U.S. moves along too... We would prefer to see, in other words, any closer integration taking place with in a more vital and more closely knit Atlantic Community...
Hugh Gaitskell called upon the Great Powers last night to lend active support to the United Nations, which he believes despite its shortcomings can assume a vital role in preserving world peace...