Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Henry Cabot Lodge told the U.N. last Friday that America would "not forget" the Soviet satellites and would not abandon efforts to free them from their Communist yoke, he was reasserting a vital part of U.S. foreign policy. The independence of the subjected peoples of Eastern Europe, although no longer a realizable goal, nevertheless remains an ideological basis of Western policy...
...children "will be taught that since Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, there has been but one or two Presidents of patriotism and ability in this country; and that several of our Presidents have been thoroughly unscrupulous." <$ "They will be instructed that they should oppose all participation in war unless the vital interest of the United States is affected, and especially that they should oppose military service by Americans as unpaid Hessians in Europe and other countries...
...tonight, in the Boston Garden, the varsity hockey team will attempt to do four very vital things...
Whether or not the Houses were once more vital centers because of fewer residents and a higher proportion of tutors, is a question on which honest men differ. Certainly the Houses offer some benefits today which were absent in the 1930's. But the critical point is that the Houses are not now what President Lowell intended them to be: "the way the benefits of the small college are combined with the rich offerings of a great university...
...court to start the second half, one point behind Penn, the large audience roared and stomped showing its support. Wilson emphasized after the game that this was the first time in his memory that a crowd had encouraged a losing Crimson squad and he felt this was a vital factor in the team's comeback...