Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call for a strong, growing, private-enterprise economy." ¶ "To stay free we must stay strong. Though we must recognize that peace cannot be gained by arms alone, yet we must gird ourselves with sufficient military strength to discourage resort to war and to protect our nation's vital interests; moreover, we must help to strengthen the collective defense of free nations...
...colonel had other ideas about his assignment. Now in its tenth year, the National War College at Ford Lesley McNair in southwest Washington, D.C. has trained 997 promising officers and civilian officials. Though little known outside of Government circles, NWC is in its own way one of the most vital schools of higher learning...
...although the mound staff has been excellent, alone it will not be enough. Princeton, with a four game winning streak, will be the most powerful league foe so far, and should not again make the vital miscues which enabled the varsity to win last year and to defeat weak Brown Wednesday...
...tour was geared to appeal to the rail fan, much of the fifty-cent ride included such standard attractions as Lincoln Oaks, where, the driver noted, a lady's handbag was once snitched by a playful swan and carried to an island inaccessible to anyone except the police. Other vital points of interest included the City Hall, the First Baptist Church ("Jesus Never Fails"), and the scene of an automobile accident which required the services of "three or four ambulances," the driver said with understandable pride...
...should like to correct the one vital error in your otherwise basically accurate account of last weekend's convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of Massachusetts. A platform which was strong in every respect save one was carried with virtual unanimity. The one exception was civil liberties, not civil rights, as stated in your lead...