Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gomulka was still very much boss of Poland. He had shown the same kind of stubborn resistance to attack that he had displayed last October, confirming the impression that he is a man who reacts best in a crisis. Once again the Stalinists had been routed, but the vital question they had raised had still to be answered: Can a Communist Party govern successfully without Kremlin support or an extensive police system, make concessions to private enterprise and the church and remain a Communist Party...
...further indication of the impress of the House on the undergraduate mind is the fact that the best-written articles by far are those on Houses, notably those on Adams, Dunster, and Eliot. Perhaps this is sheer accident; perhaps it is because the House is the most vital aspect of Harvard and the Yearbook people could not help but express this...
After months of debate over foreign aid, Washington seemed tired of it all. In the mouths of Administration leaders the timeworn arguments for the program -e.g., military aid is "vital" to the defense of the free world-had become cliches, wrung dry of meaning from reiterated challenge, reiterated response. Last week some of the deep meaning of this high-minded, unprecedented, costly U.S. experiment came to life in terms of people, fears, hopes and dramatic ambitions. It was brought to life by a short, black-haired man in a double-breasted suit who landed at the Washington airport...
...immense technical backwardness . . . They clamor for immediate economic development." Thus, said Diem, the debate among Viet Nam leaders is how "to attain economic progress without sacrificing essential liberties." Their choice is not between economic planning and no planning, but whether progress will take place by democratic or totalitarian means. Vital to the outcome of this debate, Diem warned, "are the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid" from the industrial West. President Diem's implied point: if the West's aid programs are curtailed or eliminated, the Communists can win Asia by little more than talk...
...Improve the quality and efficiency of personnel, e.g., by refusing re-enlistment to yardbirds and retraining some of the too many cooks to do more vital duty...