Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally, there were all kinds of bugs along the way. While assembling the new installation, the technicians learned that two vital parts- magnetic storage elements-were missing. Striker found that they would have to be specially manufactured, ordered them and, fortnight ago, with the two missing links in his hand luggage, flew out of New York for Saigon. Last week, as the new circuit went to work, copy from our Saigon bureau moved to New York in a matter of minutes. Formerly it took as long as twelve hours...
...economy, in which mood is often as important as statistics, the danger was that last week's nagging apprehension, if allowed to spread, could erode an intangible but vital economic asset: business confidence. "We are concerned," said Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, "with the confidence of people, people in business, people as consumers, people as employees in the future...
...search for Communists extended to Harvard. The University, acting on a long tradition of academic freedom, held firm against the general craze to find subversive scapegoats and against the particular abuses of Senator McCarthy. Vital questions were thrust upon the University regarding the ambiguous figure of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, at a time of uncertainty caused by the resignation of President Conant. Harvard's action in the Furry case, its support of the scholar's right to political independence at a time when the national desire for blood letting was at its height, was a turning point...
...buro-speak concealed an urgent message: Harvard desperately needed time to untangle complex issues and formulate answers to crucial questions. The testimony and the inevitable increase of Congressional and public pressure had raised issues of academic freedom that were vital both to Harvard and to higher education across the country...
Lowell had made a vital distinction and legitimized a professor's right to engage in political activity. But, of course, he could not have anticipated the particular problems posed by Communism over thirty years later. Even if one granted a professor the freedom to associate with with any group, didn't membership in the Communist party imply a loss of independence of mind, an adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology, and therefore the impairment of a teacher's purely academic function...