Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baboons, their long snouts armed with powerful teeth, fought ferociously when first trapped, had to be maneuvered into squeeze cages, where they were compressed into stillness long enough for a doctor to inject an anesthetic. Soon they were on the autopsy table where pathologists removed all vital organs for preservation and shipping to the U.S. Of 163 animals thus examined, about half were found to have atherosis in the aorta. Strangely, although the disease was commoner in the older apes, it was by no means confined to them. Many young ones had it. Also strangely, although atherosis of the coronary...
...main problem of the squad lies at the vital defense positions. Only Captain McLaughlin, John Duncan, and Mo Balboni have had extensive varsity experience; the graduation gap is especially evident here. "Pairings are still tentative," Weiland says, and much may change in the early weeks of the season...
What follows is perhaps the most effective provocation to panic that has been seen on-screen since the high-explosive horrors of The Wages of Fear (TIME. Feb. 21, 1955). The executioners-friendly, ordinary, matter-of-fact men who look as though they had never dispatched anything more vital than a letter-proceed calmly with their preparations, and the camera dispassionately watches every lethal detail. Gravely they draw on their rubber gloves. Delicately they decant the sulfuric acid. Tidily they bundle the little white eggs of cyanide into a sack of gauze. Politely they unroll the carpet from the cell...
...average moviegoer's blood. Cary in his book (TIME, Feb. 6. 1950) displayed the Irish talent for tirade in formidable measure, and he revealed a teeming and generous vision of life, a Rabelaisian sense of comedy. To make a straight commercial movie out of such a vital, abundant creation was at best a poor idea, but it has to be said for Britain's Alec Guinness, who wrote the script and plays the principal part, that he has marshaled all of his considerable intelligence, taste and humor to make the best...
Henry Adams had the arrogance of his ignorance. To William James he railed at the failure of man to acquire "a single vital fact worth knowing." He was obsessed with the American fallacy that life was some kind of inside story that an enterprising philosopher-reporter could crack wide open: "We may some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and immortality...