Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silber is very deeply concerned by the strike both because his future is on the line and because the strike could have disastrous implications for the future of B.U.A prolonged strike would scare students away, and the university--a private institution with a small endowment whose students are its lifeblood--can ill afford a drop in enrollment. Droves of alumni have been flocking to Silber's door warning that unless he contains the strike they will pull their sons and daughters from the university and will refuse to contribute to fund drives...
Helms feels that the problem in Iran dwarfs almost every other foreign policy consideration of the moment for the Western world, including the final agreement on the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Iran is "dangerous." His view: this is oil, the free world's lifeblood. This could sweep the entire Middle East into chaos. This could lead to serious confrontation between the superpowers...
Exploiting the Arctic fields will cost billions of rubles, but the Soviets cannot afford to ignore them. Petroleum is the lifeblood of their economic plans and political schemes. Though Moscow has told its East European allies to look elsewhere for additional oil, it still supplies 80% of the area's needs, and wants to continue to do so. The dependency helps bind the otherwise restless Poles, Czechs, East Germans and Hungarians to the U.S.S.R. At home, some conservation measures have been introduced, but the Kremlin would be unwilling to risk the unrest that might come from drastic cutbacks...
...Watergate Committee became an afternoon fixture almost as important as the soap operas it replaced on home television screens. Phrases like "At this point in time," and "What did he know and when did he know it?" as well as appointment logs and White House organization charts became the lifeblood of political conversations. The really knowledgeable viewers knew not only the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names of the staff lawyers, Sam Dash and Rufus Edmisten for the Democrats, Fred Thompson...
Profit is today a fighting word. Profits are the life blood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things ultimately depend. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer...