Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision was in the air. U.S. fighter-bombers hit gasoline and oil depots north of Hanoi twice, and it looked as if President Johnson at last was ready to blast the main fuel-storage areas outside Hanoi and Haiphong. U.S. commanders have long wanted to hit the vital "source" targets that enable North Viet Nam's trucks to feed supplies southward into the Ho Chi Minh trail. Until now, in Washington's judicious application of pressure on Hanoi, the petroleum dumps have been off limits to U.S. pilots...
Creativity Limitation. Such space-speak metaphors as "umbilical" (the cord connecting a space-walking astronaut to his craft) and "milk stool" (the arrangement of a missile's three rocket engines) are vital additions to the language, says McNeill. He is equally impressed by such metonyms as "eyeballs in" and "eyeballs out" (describing extreme conditions of acceleration and deceleration, respectively), and he approves of neologisms such as "rockoon" (a rocket launched from a balloon). Unfortunately, metaphors, metonyms and neologisms-and the creativity required to invent them-are limited. They constitute only about one-eighth of the entries in official NASA...
...halfback line will revolve around All-Ivy Andy Kydes, who has moved to the vital center half position. Flanking Kydes will be junior Joe Gould on the right and senior Ken Mallory on the left, both of whom saw some varsity action as halfback reserves last year...
...into position in Viet Nam some 8,000 miles away. American officers smoothly engineered the switch from their status as advisers to a native army to that of members of an American army in the field. The original concept of the use of American troops to guard enclaves of vital government real estate and plug the holes in Vietnamese defenses, reacting only when the Vietnamese had found and fixed the enemy, was soon expanded. The Americans were out on their own, looking for kills...
...Vietnamese workers have put down their tools, often with reasonable gripes about wages and working conditions. Lately, though, the Viet Cong have been moving in. In Saigon last month, suspected V.C. agitators puffed a minor dispute into a walkout of 1,600 workers, virtually halted work on vital port facilities for nine days...