Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duchess of his time. After the duke died in 1796 and the beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing finger is a ring inscribed with Goya's name. On her middle finger is another ring inscribed with the duke's. She points...
...National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
...ionizing radiation "that some radio waves were absorbed or scattered" for hours afterward. Result: communications were upset or blacked out over an area "at least" 3,000 miles in diameter. Obvious conclusion: a megaton bomb exploded high overhead just ahead of an all-out missile attack could disrupt vital defense communications for a few crucial hours...
...gave the doctors the needle: "The medical profession, as much as any other, has a vital interest in preventing inflation. Certainly it wants to provide its services for a fee within the range of what people can reasonably pay. If the time ever comes when larger numbers of our citizens turn primarily to the Government for assistance in what ought to be and to remain a private arrangement between doctor and patient, then we shall all have suffered a tremendous loss...
...vital key to Lewis Strauss's character is a perfectionism that still seems to nag him at an age when he might have become more mellowed. It shows in the studied elegance of his tailoring, in a precision of speech that comes natural to him from long habit but seems a bit affected to unfriendly ears, and above all in a fierce reluctance to admit his mistakes, no matter how human and understandable they may have been. Some of his perfectionism traces back to a sense of being an outsider. As a Jew, he has sometimes felt the wounding...