Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Czar's English valet were all herded together in the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) and sprayed with Bolshevik gunfire. That much of one of the most brutal murders of modern times has been recorded as fact in all the history books. A vital footnote to the bloody night has remained ever since in the realm of speculation...
...Europe and America can mutually benefit each other. Europe can lend us its experience and caution, and the U.S. can renew for Europe the hope and optimism vital to progress. "Europe can teach America only how to learn; America can teach Europe how to believe," claims d'Entreves...
Herbert Brownell Jr., 52. Attorney General, whose influence and initiative run subtly through most major aspects of the Eisenhower program, energizes the many arms of the Department of Justice that reach into vital areas of U.S. life. Charged with responsibility for cleaning up the celebrated Democratic "mess in Washington," Brownell, by a series of successful prosecutions (among the convicted: five highly placed Truman Administration officials), tightened security regulations, ran down income-tax violators, purged the Government of scores of undesirables. His Justice Department battled Communists (72 Smith Act convictions) and labor racketeers (an average of 30 labor prosecutions a year...
...Purdue University, "in the doctrine of opportunity. If students fail, they at least know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks, "of neglecting by default other vital factors in a student's makeup?" Adds Admissions Director Robert Jackson of Oberlin: "You have to leave the door open for the Winston Churchills. It is said of him that on the basis of his school record, he wouldn't be admitted to any college today...
What was the point of "Operation Jubilee"? Was the Italian radio correct in saying that the "British High Command did not even know what it hoped to achieve"? The British claimed that the assault "provided vital information" for the Normandy invasion, but the principal discoveries seem to have been merely 1) that the Germans built excellent fortifications, 2) that Intelligence must show a lot more intelligence, 3) that infantry attacking heavily fortified positions needs heavy covering fire...