Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the axe of censorship falls upon a college campus, it generally deals the deathblow to a vital means of free expression. Student opinion, though aroused, is often helpless in the face of absolute University rule, and a crusade for academic freedom tends to be waged within the confines of a paper...
...Armored vest protects against small, low-velocity fragments, is lighter than Korean war armor, better designed for protection at vital throat areas...
...rise in productivity is vital because it helps offset rising labor costs, a big push behind inflation. So far, productivity is running ahead of 1958 wage hikes; autoworkers settled last month for more moderate terms than in recent years (4% wage rise for Ford). The cost of the new contracts has already been written into 1959 car prices. Said Frederic G. Donner, chairman of General Motors, in Manhattan last week: "I think it's fair to say that the contract, as we have signed it, would not require any further adjustment in prices...
...many examples in both parties demonstrate, one can scarcely expect anyone in even a quasi-official position to discharge this vital function relentlessly today...
...advocates of this position--and they are legion--are obscuring one vital axiom (whether consciously or not) which must be made clear...