Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vital American. Even more-and perhaps even more surprisingly-the world's reaction turned around the kind of man Dulles was, in a sort of commentary on the timelessness of character. Here was Dulles, devout Presbyterian elder, reading grim-voiced lessons in church. There was Dulles, lover of life, tucked away on Duck Island with wife Janet, reading aloud, or birdwatching, or downing rye on the rocks, or washing pots and pans...
...before him. Lyndon Baines Johnson for nine years attended the Southern caucus of senators, was the Southerners' strong choice for Democratic floor leader in 1953. But a couple of years ago, other duties began to keep him busy at caucus time, even as the Southerners were meeting in vital civil rights strategy sessions. This year, to their discomfiture, he opened the 86th Congress with a quick drive to weaken the filibuster-fostering Rule 22, followed up a fortnight later with his own civil rights bill...
...life" which could make the College a great place to learn. It is easy to imagine students paying lip service to "intellectual excitement" while actually looking on New College as an institutionalized gut. Student seminars tend to bog down if students fail to do thoroughly the reading required for vital discussion...
...Also vital to Continental's scheme is its statewide saturation selling, which spreads the risk, gives the company the benefit of group insurance. Other companies have already followed Continental's lead. Mutual of Omaha is trying a similar policy in four Southern states and Fireman's Fund has just completed a trial campaign in California...
...most vital parts of the program are the big concerted numbers, where brilliant lighting and costumes combine with the drumming and dancing to produce dazzling splashes of color. The other sections naturally act as relief; these generally take the form of lyrical African love songs, of calypso duets with guitars, hardly distinguishable from their Caribbean counterparts. The most interesting of these quiet interludes involves an African lute of liquid sound and astonishing facility called a "cora." The two cora soloists are undoubtedly virtuosos, and they draw from their instruments a phenomenal number of notes during their brief performances...