Word: vitality
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...shaped the ideas and actions of Blacks, women, and artists throughout a history of hardship. However, at is the manner in which Walker portrays particular stories, most notably her own, and the wisdom with which she evaluates such a wide range of topics, that make Womanist Prose fresh and vital Both entertaining and sobering, yet always full of an organic wisdom worthy of Shug Avery, it is highly recommended reading for all who would like to consider themselves enlightened feminists...
Firmenich escaped to Europe, where he issued defiant manifestoes and embraced luminaries like Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Firmenich also bragged from exile that his Montoneros played a small but vital part in the 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua...
Preoccupied by Lebanon's disintegration, Western nations have paid little heed to another continuing tragedy, the seemingly endless border war between Iran and Iraq. Yet throughout the 41-month-long struggle that has claimed more than 130,000 lives, vital Western interests have been in jeopardy. That point was driven home again last week as the war entered a new cycle of bloodletting. While thousands of Iraqi and Iranian troops clashed in major battles, the widening conflict reawakened the U.S. and other oil-consuming nations to the threat of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway through...
...most corrosive ingredient is sulfur dioxide. Venus is also valuable for studying the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which increases global temperatures. Says the U.S. Geological Survey's Harold Masursky of the latest Venus findings: "These are not just nice things to know. They may be vital to our survival...
...return of Boyum, Dinneen and Jackson is vital to Harvard's chances of defeating the Tigers, and retaining the nine-man title it won last year...