Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CORRECT VITAL STATISTICS, I AM 35 YEARS OLD, ALTHOUGH AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR I FEEL THE 45 YOU GAVE...
Next day London fired back a reply: sorry, but the Suez Canal base is too vital to Middle Eastern and Western defense for the British to clear out unconditionally. Britain will not evacuate unless and until she is sure that in an emergency the base would be operated efficiently for the common good...
Nineteen years ago, when the depression provided tempting arguments for high tariffs, a far-thinking administration initiated the Reciprocal Trade Agreements. In 1953, although world trade is more urgent than ever before, it appears that Congress may replace this vital primer to Western economy with the special interests' dream--the Simpson Act. The Act would hand presidential control of trade agreements to the conservative U.S. Tariff Commission, while providing higher barriers for lead, zinc, and fuel oil. Opposed by Dulles, Eisenhower, and most of the Democrats, the Simpson Act would be the precurser of a dangerous high-tariff program...
While it is nice to see that the State Department recognizes this noble sport as vital to the country, it is surprising that the Russian chessplayers succeeded where hundreds of talented men from allied nations have failed. Most incredible of all, a majority of those who have been refused visas on account of the McCarran Act have been scientists and educators, men of equally noble calling and of much greater importance to the United States' welfare...
...permit somebody to say that that war is going to end on a certain date, and then the procurement department does not prepare for the war and the chiefs of staff are not consulted ... Is that the way the Department of Defense is run, where a vital question of war is to be determined by somebody else other than the chiefs of staff, and we stop getting ammunition or do not try to get it because we think that war is going to end on a certain date...