Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign enrages Lodge. He concedes that even under the pressures of a national campaign, he was relaxed enough to settle back on a sofa and snooze for 20 minutes or so. But he sees nothing whatever wrong about that. Instead, he often told his aides: "Two things are vital in any campaign. You have to stay well, and you have to stay in character...
...finds that German girls today tend to be skinnier of hip than young Americans and Italians. This "generation of fashion models," as one approving editor calls it, averages 5 ft. 6 in. in the 14-25 age bracket, one inch taller than other European girls, and it boasts unbeatable vital statistics...
...world market, where prices are 80 a Ib. v. the 60 Castro gets from his Red friends. This puts Castro in a worse position than last year, when the Russians allowed him to sell 1,000,000 tons on the world market, thus earning a windfall of vital dollars to buy Western buses, trucks, tractors and spare parts...
...judge from his tumultuous reception and Nasser's own rhetoric, the war was already won. Making no mention of the royalists or of the Saudi Arabian regime that until last July supplied them with arms and money, Nasser turned his wrath on the British, whose vital military base in adjoining Aden he termed "the occupied South." Vowed Egypt's President: "I swear to God to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world. We shall shed blood and sacrifice souls, and we shall be as victorious as we were in Egypt and Yemen." For good measure, Nasser...
...Bible was reproduced by what Bob Chollar, the company's head of research, calls photochromic micro images, or PCMI. The film has none of the silver halide grains that are the vital element in conventional photographic film; instead there is a very thin layer of a dye that darkens rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light. The resulting picture has no "grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle...