Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party, and Giorgio La Pira, the bustling little mayor of Florence. Both are ardent Roman Catholics who believe in infusing militant Christian principle into politics. Both are men of compassion and understanding. Both believe in putting into practice the words of the Gospels. But they emphatically disagree on one vital point: the role of the state in human affairs...
...keep the sheer face of Contractor's Hill from sliding into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for the removal of some 2,000,000 cu. yds. of the rocky hill. Seven contracting firms, among them Morrison-Knudsen, world's greatest earth mover, rushed engineers to the canal to study the great fissure splitting the hill. But it was the young and aggressive Tecon Corp. of Dallas that put in the winning offer, 15 minutes before the bidding closed last week...
Time has proved that an ex-garment maker can often produce better, more vital, more dramatic, even more sensitive movies than a Yale man. And in yearning for the benediction of the New York critics, the industry can never forget that most of the popcorn eaters who pay its bills, while being good, honest, patriotic, thrifty, well-meaning, healthy, 100% Americans, also tend to be tasteless slobs...
Domestic subversion would have been a vital issue to the Attorney-general's office no matter who occupied it. In the election of 1952, the charge that the government was riddled with communists gained many normally Democratic votes for the Republicans. It drew them from districts populated by nationality groups of low income which had been sensitive to the Communist threat since before World War II. And because the task of controlling domestic Communists fell to the Attorney-General, Brownell's office automatically became the focus of public interest...
...citations, read by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, went to former Provost Paul H. Buck for his decisiveness and patience during last spring's controversy; to Dean Erwin N. Griswold for his vital role as a member of the special Faculty Advisor Committee; to Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 for his stand as President of the Board of Overseers; to Charles A. Coolidge '17 as the senior member of the Corporation; and to President Pusey...