Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time they stood more than two to one for Ike. In Atlanta, Negroes voted about four to one for Eisenhower. Negroes helped Eisenhower (and Republican Senatorial Candidate John Sherman Cooper) carry Kentucky by contributing to Ike's 34,000 plurality in Louisville. In winning Florida's vital Dade County (Miami) by 23,000 votes, Ike took five of twelve Negro districts. And Negro switches played a crucial part in the most remarkable Eisenhower victory of all: Louisiana, Democratic since...
...served Dean Acheson and Dulles very well. Furthermore, his greater administrative experience and prestige outweigh the Massachusetts governor's early experience in foreign relations, experience that centers in the 1920's, for the problems of today are new, and exposure to the diplomacy of then, while helpful, is not vital...
...been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners can do, where and when they should do it. As his travels have progressed, his crowds have grown in size and warmth, and he has given the G.O.P. cause a vital lift all over the U.S. Says Victor Johnston, director of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee: "He's the best campaigner we've got, bar none...
...made it in front of the whole world. This was the first time in their history that the Soviet leaders had done this, and the implications of their act went far beyond Hungary. That was why the events in Hungary on this foggy October day were of such vital concern to the world...
Vitelloni (API-Jamus). A dying art, like a rotting fruit, may hold the seed of a new birth. In Italy, as the so-called realistic cinema has decayed, a vital new talent has emerged: Federico Fellini. Last summer La Strada (The Road) revealed him to U.S. audiences as an artist of uncertain means but of startling sensibility. Vitelloni, completed in 1953, a year before La Strada, secured Fellini's fame in Europe. It is a finer piece of work than La Strada in every way. Technically, it is an elegant exercise in cinematic diction. Literarily, it is a murderous...