Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiked Spearhead. Meanwhile, the U.S. had diplomatic difficulties of its own in the form of a thorny negotiation with Chiang Kai-shek over the evacuation of the Tachen Islands. Last September the U.S. decided that the islands of Quemoy and Matsu were not militarily vital to the defense of Formosa. Later, as a condition to giving up the Tachens, Chiang demanded a public U.S. promise to defend Quemoy and Matsu. Politically, this was a reasonable condition, for with the Tachens gone, the other islands, as well as having tactical value, would become a test in the minds of free Asians...
Buried in the verbiage were some vital facts...
...Cambridge open is not intended as an invitation to espionage," the department said. "But we did it deliberately to confuse the Russians. We didn't want to give them a blue print for locating spies, so we closed some areas which are not important to security, and left other vital ones open...
...Communist armed aggression. By so asserting this belief, we are taking a step to preserve the peace in the Formosa area. We are ready to support a United Nations effort to end present hostilities in the area, but we are also united in our determination to defend an area vital to the security of the United States and the free world...
...less vital than how she plays boss for a day is how she does so for the ensuing two nights. Hence for the next two acts it is Playwright Alexander's difficult job to make nothing much happen, but a good deal seem to. A neighborly and beslacked predatory platinum blonde wanders in and out; so does the heroine's repressed-and clearly replaceable-fiancé: hero and heroine (John Newland and June Lockhart) take turns batting and fielding. And the repressed fiancé (delightfully played by Tom Poston) is twice gorgeously tight...