Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step-up in military power and an increase of small-scale war arms are vital to the maintenance of United States leadership in the free world, and even to the survival of the West, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson said last night. Acheson spoke at the first annual William L. Clayton Lecture at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University...
...eight years, ever since Lamont Library opened its plate-glass doors back in 1949, a chaste little exhibition of printing techniques has reposed in the showcases of the First Level. There, an offensively well-proportioned "Specimen of Fairfield Type" has untiringly announced its vital message to the daily passers-by: "Consult the Eyes as Sovereign Judges of Form...
...referendum petition against the school appointments have carried over into the present campaign and are the base of the organzation. Some candidates who have strong organizations of their own in normally non-CCA wards rely mainly on their own workers, but for the non-incumbents the CCA setup is vital...
...campaign does strange things to people. A mild-mannered college dean turns into a platform demon, and a Harvard-baiter suddenly mellows. The issue of politics in the Cambridge schools may not seem important to a student, but it is vital to the men and women on both sides of the question. Whether the "good guys" or the "bad guys" win probably won't matter much to the Russian satellite or the trouble in the Middle East, but it is the stuff of American politics, and it is a phenomenon that no participant or spectator is likely to forget.Incumbent School...
Aron entitled his lecture series "France in the 20th Century, Continuity or Decay?" Aron maintained that although political instability may take the form of frequent changes in regime, France is becoming "more vital at the time of her retreat" from North Africa...