Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amendment or no, the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement had created a vital new precedent-and in the developing federal system, precedent itself tends to blast away or to outpace deadlock.* The immediate result is that Nixon no longer need hesitate to exercise authority in the event of a disabling presidential illness. And because of that, other Vice Presidents to come will pay more attention to the affairs of the presidency, well aware that they will be expected to assume the responsibility in crisis...
...stoppage of tests without any Russian payment in return. Dulles himself seemed to signal some change in emphasis in recent testimony to a closed session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He still thinks a cease-test agreement undesirable, said he, but the issue is not a very vital question, and the U.S. now resists such an agreement because Britain and France want to keep testing...
...Philippines, Indonesia-only Indonesia is not committed to the West. If, as seems possible, Sukarno leads his nation into Communism, the Communists will have made a gigantic leap across a strategic barrier. To the nations of SEATO, meeting in Manila next week, what happens in Indonesia is of vital importance...
...Panamanian rebellion against Panama's colonial overlord, Colombia. His eventual intention, of course, was to seize or to negotiate possession of a canal zone in Panama, dig the canal, and that way safeguard the defenses of both coasts of the U.S. Said T.R.: "It was imperative ... of vital necessity...
...residence near the ancient ruins of Carthage early last week Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba held a business luncheon. Though the matters Bourguiba wanted to discuss were of vital interest to France, his guests were not Frenchmen. They were U.S. Ambassador Lewis Jones and British Ambassador Angus Malcolm. "This," commented a French diplomat in Tunisia, "is exactly what we have always tried to prevent; yet today we are grateful that it is occurring...