Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House now suggests, Hanoi's inquiries are intimations of hard bargaining to come, it is doubly vital for Washington and Saigon to show a common front. On the surface at least, Midway was just such a display...
...years since U.S. troops wrested Okinawa from Japan at a cost of 12,500 American lives, the 60-mile-long island in the East China Sea has been built up as the Pentagon's "Keystone of the Pacific," its most vital staging area for operations from Korea to Viet Nam. A bustling bastion just 500 miles southeast of Shanghai, it is honeycombed with 91 military installations accommodating 45,000 U.S. troops, It is also, however, a growing threat to harmonious U.S.-Japanese relations. A quarter-century after the war, the continued rule of 1,000,000 citizens of Okinawa...
Even in absolute silence, animals are able to communicate with each other by an almost infinite variety of gestures and motions. In lower forms of life, such nonvocal expressions are often vital to the survival of the species. Man, of course, has the gift of speech. Yet he too is able to signal his moods and thoughts with a nonverbal vocabulary of gestures and expressions. These signals constitute a powerful silent language that is often as effective and direct as speech itself. The unspoken lexicon is becoming a subject of increasing interest to specialists in the new science of ethology...
...Cambridge, and straightway the town revealed itself in a new light. The barefoot townies scrounging and pimping out along. Mass Ave became Harvard students or, failing that, members of the greater Harvard community, rapping. The square was rife with midnight conferences, indoor and outdoors, inconsequential and self-consciously vital. Top-secret information could be had for a song, if that. Friends greeted each other with a knowing smile, as if to say everybody had exactly the same weighty thing on his mind and why not admit...
...recommend that Harvard join with M.I.T. and other interested groups in urging the City of Cambridge to develop a larger program for publicly assisted housing.... It is vital that the supply of low cost housing (especially for the elderly) and of moderate cost housing (for both faculty and community residents) be increased: this cannot be done without joint public-private efforts of a kind an dscale not yet attempted in the city.... We believe it is possible for the city and the universities to onnounce, after appropriate study, a joint program to add a certain number of housing units with...