Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topic of conversation in Danang last week was the impending arrival of two battalions of U.S. marines to help defend the airbase perimeter. But with the stepped-up Viet Cong offensives throughout the country, especially around Bongson and Danang, even they may not be enough to keep the strategically vital northern third of the country from falling to Communist arms. The U.S. air strikes to the North -no longer tit-for-tat but now steady, measured assaults on Viet Cong supply lines-must be backed up by success on the ground within South Viet Nam if Washington's policy...
...admit what each side excludes in attacking the other, you come closer to the truth about imperialism. All three of the vital major powers in the world--China, the U.S., and Russia--have sought ideological and economic hegemony over the countries on their borders. In addition, the two nuclear powers have tried to extend this hegemony to the entire globe. Each believes any increase in the other's domain means a decrease in its own power. As soon as the Chinese are able they will join the game...
...radicals with the sense of power-realities of the old-line liberals, but it has one advantage: The Chinese are unlikely to prove any more popular in their attempts to run other people's countries than have the Americans. Then, in the struggle for world begemony, the vital ingredient of public enthusiasm may lie with a community of genuinely independent nations...
...been solved. But few Canadians genuinely believe that their country is currently in "grave danger." The commission now has another two years to recommend what else can be done, as its mandate says, for a "satisfactory matching up between the minimum of what French-speaking Canadians consider as vital and the maximum that English-speaking Canadians will accept...
...number of flights and decreasing fares (the lowest seasonal round-trip rate from New York to Jamaica is $44 less than last year's). The main reason for the boom, and perhaps the simplest, is that winter vacations to sunny climates have become more and more a vital part of American life...