Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round-table discussions that started the next morning, frankness was the rule, brushing away misunderstandings and bolstering mutual confidence, more vital to an international alliance than agreement or disagreement on particular issues. At the conference's first formal session, Macmillan started off by saying that the recent rupture between the two nations was a matter to be mentioned and then firmly set aside; Eisenhower said that the U.S. had no desire to talk about "spilled milk...
...mean. But General Schriever is a man who has always lived for victory rather than defeat. ("I hate to admit defeat in anything," he once remarked, without flamboyance.) Should he win his destiny-sized race for an operational ICBM, he believes, the U.S. will hold in its hands a vital deterrent to attack-a new peacekeeper of unparalleled power and potential...
...kind of outer and inner story-in his ferocious portrayal of a whole community's lynch-law intolerances that encircles his sordid, tense, sometimes maudlin idyl-there is more awry than a certain sprawl and shifting of tone. There is a real lack of causation and of vital connection; the destructive social forces never bear down honestly or even credibly on the personal tale. But here it is the social critic who helps lead the craftsman astray-the Williams who is obsessed with violence, corruption and sex, who sees life through a cracked glass darkly...
...event of an atomic attack, the Commerce Department fears that "corporate amnesia" may cripple many companies; casualties may be so great that the boards of most companies which require a quorum to make vital decisions would be unable to act or pick successors to those killed. Last week, complying with Commerce's new "continuity of management" program, Western Union asked stockholders to approve two simple changes in company bylaws. The changes: 1) remaining board members may elect new directors with "less than a quorum," and 2) surviving vice presidents may succeed the president in order of seniority. Other...
...state's rights arguments against federal aid to education simply delay action to meet the present need. The financial burden, moreover, would be small compared to that imposed by programs less vital to national welfare, such as veterans' benefits. That New York should be taxed to improve education in Alabama is as reasonable as taxing one part of a state to better conditions in another...