Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President most is inflation, and in the fight against it he appealed beyond Capitol Hill to the nation. "Government's efforts," he said, "must be paralleled by the attitudes and actions of individual citizens." Business leaders must "studiously avoid those price rises that are possible only because of vital or unusual needs of the whole nation," and labor's wage increases "must be reasonably related to improvements in productivity...
...Judge Nixon." The reason: by one thunderstriking interpretation from the chair, Richard Nixon had tagged the discomfiting word "unconstitutional" to the much-debated, filibuster-protecting Senate Rule XXII (TIME, Jan. 14). But he had done something else as well: he had raised an emotional floodgate for a piece of vital legislation that has been dammed too long by Senate rules and procedure. Before Congress adjourns, everyone agreed, there will be a sizzling Senate filibuster. But when the filibuster is broken, there will be passed the civil-rights legislation that President Eisenhower asked unsuccessfully last year, has sought again this session...
...Foreign Minister Meir, just back in Manhattan after touring the U.S. on behalf of Bonds for Israel, was both grateful and impressed over the current outpouring of funds. "I have found that everyone recognizes that Israel's position in seeking assurances with regard to its security and other vital interests is fully justified," said she, adding that "the central role in building our economic strength has been played by Israel bonds...
...Main Point." "Our system of railroads is likely to be completely knocked out, at least for the moment. Our system of roads will stand up [except for] vital spots such as bridges." So the U.S. should store road-repair equipment near the vulnerable points "in such a way that transportation throughout the country will not even lag. We can be back in business within a few hours of any attack." Similarly, the U.S. could store fleets of trucks, gasoline supplies, power units ("nuclear energy might be the best"), spare parts, machine tools...
...anticipated Macmillan's choice: the Economist called it "startling." But for weeks, Tories had known in their hearts that Sir Anthony would have to go; it had only been a question of time. It was not merely that he had miscalculated grievously on a matter of vital national policy-straining the U.S. alliance as it had never been strained before, bitterly dividing his own country, coming within a hairsbreadth of shattering the Commonwealth, blocking the canal he sought to seize. A man of greater flair might have carried off as great a blunder and outlived it. Rather...