Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East, more than 150 Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clashed in the skies over Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The Israeli aircraft destroyed all of the SA-6 ground-to-air missiles that Israel had repeatedly threatened to obliterate. Israeli ground forces rolled to within two miles of the vital Damascus-to-Beirut highway, threatening to sever Syria's supply lifeline to its estimated 30,000 troops in the Bekaa Valley and in Beirut...
Reagan began the lesson by noting, in a radio broadcast to the folks back home, that not many steps away from where he was seated in the Versailles Palace, the rotund and wise Benjamin Franklin struck a deal with Louis XVI in 1778 that brought vital French help in the Revolution. "Now, I don't want to give you a history lesson," Reagan said, but of course he did just that. He summoned up images of the proud and stubborn Woodrow Wilson, who journeyed to Versailles after World War I, determined to forge a peace that could...
...much like a heavyweight champion as Sly. Rocky Balboa's body is the public's perception of a fighter, while Cooney's is not." The results, as evidenced by this week's TIME cover, are something of a technical knockout. (One piece of equipment vital to the success: the box that the 5-ft. 10-in. Stallone is standing on to bring him into the picture with the 6-ft. 6-in. Cooney...
...Severe problems may also come from the thick ice expected to remain well past winter in the new reservoirs. By retarding the spring thaw, the freeze-up could cut the already brief northern growing season by two weeks. The prolonged winter weather might also increase spring winds and reduce vital rains...
...said that "newspapers will always serve a deeply vital function and will never be displaced" despite television's mass appeal...