Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing like the business we lost during the Negro boycott. We're doing fine." In the lunch-counter fight as in others since, it was Smith's willingness to achieve progress in fact, rather than seek headline victories, that made the quiet but vital difference...
Relations between Harvard and the local community are not improving, and the traditional town-gown feud is still a serious obstacle to projects and desires vital to the University...
...final quotation is again a mixture of two sources. All doctrines, even Communism, are of course studied and discussed in a Catholic university. My not wanting to be a medieval man came from another context, wherein I described St. Thomas as doing a vital work in his time and our need to apply the ancient wisdom with equal vitality to the monumental and unprecedented problems of our own times...
...were sworn in as new citizens. From Portland. Ore., to Hillsboro, Texas, high school students acted as jurors in mock trials. Atlanta ministers delivered sermons. Seattle TV stations presented programs, San Diego lawyers met with foreign-exchange students-all to explain the meaning of law and the vital need for its rule in the world...
Also Guerrillas. Still convinced that it is vital for the U.S. to step up its rate of growth, Kennedy task forces are at work on a new report that is expected to call for a more aggressive Government spending program. This is in addition to proposed increased spending on space exploration and guerrilla warfare forces-programs which, though urged as defense rather than economic measures, would obviously have impact on the economy. But when it comes to programs whose only declared purpose is to spur the economy, Congress and a tax-conscious public are apt to balk, convinced-no matter...