Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist conspiracy setup?" asked Joe. Replied Brennan (who, while a justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, had incurred Joe's hostility by referring to "Salem witch hunts" in public speeches): "Not only do I approve, Senator, but personally I cannot think of a more important or vital objective of its committee investigations than that of rooting out subversives in government...
...each of its past three wars, the U.S. has paid heavily for lack of a sizable domestic tungsten industry. Each time it has been gouged by foreign producers for the vital metal needed to toughen high-grade steels. After the Korean war, when world prices per standard 20-lb. unit leaped from $18 to $90, the Government finally began 1) stockpiling tungsten for defense and 2) fostering a domestic industry with a $30 million annual subsidy to buy U.S. tungsten at $63 per unit, about twice the world market price. Last week the tungsten subsidy was blasted from an unexpected...
...already been spent. Rockefeller asked a newly formed Arkansas Industrialization Panel of 100 men to kick in $100 each, started things rolling with a $5,000 contribution. Then he and the panel took to the hills to convince the money-pinched people of Arkansas that they had a vital stake in the commission's future. Spurred on by their enthusiasm, Arkansans contributed $200,000. Says Rockefeller: "This is part of being a catalyst. That's how I see my role in Arkansas...
Comparative scores are virtually useless in establishing the relative strengths of the teams, for neither coach likes to run up a big count against hapless opponents. But on comparative times, in a sport where tenths of a second are vital, Yale is hours ahead of the varsity...
...play is Uncle Vanya's overflow of rage at Serebriakov because the overweeningly self-assertive professor has stifled his life. Vanya shoots Serebriakov twice, once on stage at close range. He misses. Thus the tensions between the principals, their coordinated emotions, and their interdependent sadness are vital. And this is a dimension of Chekhov that the Adams actors rarely create...