Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislative and executive should properly be in the same hands, so that there can be responsibility fixed without crimination and recrimination . . . But this is not to deny that I have had active and vital Democratic support in certain of the programs that I have advanced...
...would have to follow a "regime of ordered work activity, interspersed with regular amounts of exercise, recreation and rest." This meant that some of the less vital duties that he had been performing, including some speeches, ceremonial dinners, receptions and correspondence, would be reduced. "All of this means also that neither for renomination nor re-election would I engage in extensive traveling and in whistle-stop speaking, normally referred to as barnstorming. I had long ago made up my mind, before I ever dreamed of a personal heart attack, that I could never as President of all the people conduct...
...that the first four year term should begin in 1958, an off-year; Democrats claim that the gubernatorial and presidential races should be simultaneous to ensure the largest possible turn-out at the polls. The Republicans, on the other hand, support the off-year proposal because they claim that vital state issues have to take a back seat during presidential campaigns...
...almost impossible to worship anything except the creative expression of the self. This emphasis on individuality (not for its own sake) makes the work of the "abstract expressionists" meaningful-not in any basically different way from jazz, or certain aspects of American business before becoming institutionalized, etc. This vital American painting is not only an answer to greyflannelsuitism, but to art as propaganda (e.g., Russia today and Mexico yesterday). Its seemingly uncommunicative, antisocial, art-for-art's-sake implications are understandable in terms of the failure of so much art for God's and state's sake...
Dulles: They are weak internally in certain vital respects . . . They have pushed their heavy industry quite effectively . . . In the process they have neglected their other forms, their consumer goods and their agricultural situation, which is quite critical . . . They are in a very...