Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swarms with barge traffic. Years ago, the river started falling. Dredging and straightening of the channel downstream had made the water flow faster, and the quickened flow lowered the river's level. It also eroded the river bed, which lowered the water level still more. Duisburg's vital harbor got shallower and shallower. Dredging the harbor to keep pace with the fall of the river would have narrowed its sloping sides and left its crowded wharves and docks high...
Throughout his talk, Sert called for more vital and animated expression for buildings, a new vocavulary for city buildings leading to greater variety. There is continual emphasis on movement, animation, and a functional linking of buildings and spaces...
...country is between the sciences and the humanities. But in the city of Cambridge, the cultural gap is between Harvard Square and Central Square, and it is enormous. Central Square is the perfect example of a business center in a middle-sized American city: it is brash, noisy, ugly, vital and standardized. Harvard Square, on the other hand, is almost entirely the creature of Harvard University, and its commercial life is geared to the tastes and requirements of the University and its students...
...stage military rocket, is giving trouble as a launcher for the Gemini capsule. It vibrates too violently for a manned booster, and if this unpleasant habit is not eliminated soon, the Gemini program will fall even farther behind. Since Gemini is the training tool for the vital rendezvous maneuvers, delay will slow the entire program...
...loss of appeal as a U.S. v. Russia horse race. But when space officials put aside their worries about getting money out of Congress, they admit that the moon project has slipped a little, and may slip more. Along with all its scientific and engineering troubles, it has a vital problem of personnel. One man, one savvy administrative expert such as the Navy's Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, who sent the all-important Polaris missile to sea, has yet to be found to keep all the moon men working productively in harness...