Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower mounted the rostrum, took his place before the blue-topped lectern in a blaze of a dozen klieg lights. He looked well-erect, dignified, relaxed, smiling broadly as he acknowledged the applause, "Thank you! Thank you!" He sounded well-his voice was firm, alert, vital-as he prefaced his speech by saying Happy Birthday to the presiding officers. Vice President Richard Nixon, 46 that day; Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77 that week. Then President Eisenhower set about "showing" the 86th Congress by refusing-even with the Communist planet orbiting the sun and the U.S.S.R.'s Anastas Mikoyan orbiting...
Until a few weeks ago. the energetic West Germans had hoped to get in on the construction of Nasser's beloved Aswan Dam by offering him $50 million to help build it. Then Bonn for the first time learned about a vital clause in Nasser's December agreement with Moscow. The Russians had demanded and apparently got a veto over all contracts for the first section of the project-building a cofferdam, dividing the Nile around the site, etc. Asked Izvestia sweetly: "Do they [the West Germans] wish to make commitments on the second section...
Flemming noted a 4.4 per cent decline in enrollment for engineering courses, calling the drop a "serious setback in a field of education vital to our national security in a period of technological change." He pointed out a corresponding drop of 11 per cent in freshman enrollments...
Fund-raising in Boston and hiring of artists in New York, as well as summer patronage are "three vital ways" in which the Wellesley organization will have to compete with "state-endorsed competition," their statement said...
...widely considered one of the chief strongholds of the organization man. Ralph Cordiner is an organization man with a vital difference: he has made the organization conform to him. ''When I took over in 1951,'' he recalls, "I told lots of people immediately that this company was not going to be a sinecure for mediocrity. The old G.E. had a reputation as a good and complacent place to work if you kept your nose clean. I wanted to get rid of that idea and create more risk and opportunity." Says G.E. Director and Wall Street Broker...