Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North. To the east, the la Drang River provides easy transport and a natural gateway to Viet Nam's central highlands-whose takeover some U.S. intelligence experts believe to be the goal of Hanoi's massive buildup. In its probes, the Air Cav apparently hit a vital nerve, and the Communists fought back in what may have been a critical defensive action...
...around the factory-rich region. In the last month, U.S. planes have attacked 13 SAM missile sites, mostly in the complex, one of them only 22 miles from Hanoi, the closest strike yet to the Red capital. For the first time, American aircraft last week lashed out at the vital communications link between Hanoi and Haiphong, loosing 49 tons of bombs on a rail and highway bridge. In two other missions, they blasted the main railway and the main highway running northeast from Hanoi to China...
...hardly anything, not even basic facts. "Communism is the only regime capable of saving Asia from anarchy, misery and extortion," says a writer in Viet-Report. Replies a contributor to Perspectives: "Communism is like a disease of the body that must be stopped before it spreads to the vital parts...
...Eastern gallery will put on display a distinguished collection of Han-dynasty pottery, on extended loan. Donald DeCoursey Harrington, a gas and oil investor living in Texas, has donated 47 paintings from Boudin to Vuillard that make the museum's survey of French art its most vital collection...
...York has welcomed Wolfe as the traditional Outsider come to tell them about themselves. Confusing him with camp, pop art, underground movies, and whatever else is au courant, they've honeyed him into a parlor gadfly, who describes the vital, vulgar, exotic American Now which is as far from their sphere of knowledge or comprehension as Ulan Bator. He himself admits that his readership significantly overlaps with that of his hated New Yorker...