Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Bruce Munro views today's game as a vital test of whether the varsity will live up to its potential. The team is now in fairly good physical shape, although defensemen Jim Herscot and Bob Shaunessy are both suffering from minor leg miseries. The latter two will start, along with John Baldwin, in front of goalie Dick MacKinnon, who turned in a fine performance in Wednesday's 12 to 5 victory over Holy Cross...
...organization in the University has a parallel arrangement for administration and membership. The players in the orchestra fall into three catagories: Harvard men who are members of the Sodality, Cantabrigians interested in orchestral music who play a vital but scarce instrument like the viola, and Radcliffe girls who are members of the Radcliffe Orchestra...
...Vital Samplings. Prodded at his news conference. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles fell into the hole, conceded that the U.S.S.R. had won "a certain propaganda victory." But, said Dulles, the President had been forewarned about the Kremlin's move, had consulted with senior officials (Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss) on whether "to try to steal a march on the Soviet" by announcing a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests. He had decided that this summer's tests of "clean." i.e., low-fallout, nuclear weapons at Eniwetok Atoll were essential...
...when I feel like it," answered Nehru. "I am a man of moods." Then, gazing reflectively up at the ceiling, he added: "I do feel flat and stale, and I don't think it is right for a person to feel that way and have to deal with vital and important problems. My work needs freshening up ... but I think I may have some further years of effective service, because I am bodily fit. While I cannot judge my own mind, I don't think it is slipping...
...many a small company, collective employer bargaining is vital: no small businessman has a chance alone against a powerful union. Employer associations can not only pool resources, but also save employers' time and money by bargaining for them. The mammoth steel industry practices a highly useful form of industrywide bargaining, though it boggles at any formal association of companies. After a bad strike in 1946, U.S. Steel Corp. sat down in 1947 with the union and hammered out a contract setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest...