Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem seriously. The graduate students of today will be the professors and the department chairmen of tomorrow on whom we and our successors will depend to supply us with our "input" of talented students and to consume our "output" of certified scholars. Because of this they are an absolutely vital potential resource, and we cannot afford to neglect them...
...least four regular and so far uncommitted Communist divisions-most of the week's ground probes were carried out by local forces and guerrillas-were reported on the move in III Corps, the vital eleven provinces that surround Saigon. An attempt at the capital itself was not ruled out, and the allies responded by tightening defensive cordons around the city, by now a veritable fortress...
Little Church. By far the most sustained ground fighting erupted in midweek within a few thousand feet of Bien Hoa, a huge and vital airbase northeast of Saigon. The Communists took up positions in a string of hamlets near the busy base and, in the bloody fighting that ensued, a battered little church changed hands several times. The battle did not turn until fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships, taking off little more than a mile away, saturated the Communist positions with rockets and napalm. A few Viet Cong staggered out of the inferno, bleeding and holding their weapons over their...
...discover normality-which is somewhat like describing the law-abiding citizen through the reprehensible habits of the underworld. He focused on what he called the id-man's dark, powerful and basic animal urges-at the expense of the ego, even while recognizing the ego as the vital mediator between instinct and environment. Thus he missed, or scanted, some very basic questions. What is a normal-healthy-emotional climate? Cannot human unhappiness be conditioned as much by the present as by the past...
Murphy's success did not obscure a flock of other outstanding performances. Mike Cahalan and Dave Powlison were both double winners, while Powlison and Steve Krause established new records. Senior John Bragg was also a vital factor in the upset due to his two important second place finishes. Two other Harvard winners were Johnnie Munk and Toby Gerhart...