Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked if he thought he had covered the freshman year in secondary school, another replied, "No, but I think I can get along without it. Since I plan to go to graduate school, I feel that in the long run the freshman year won't be vital...
...conference last week that he will run for re election in 1962, planning to remain, at least until 1964, top officeholder in the nation's most populous state. And what did he think about Dick Nixon's fortunes these days? Nixon, answered Rocky, is "one of the vital forces in the Republican Party-but I don't think, frankly, between elections when a party loses the presidency, that the party has an actual head...
ACTH is produced by the pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of the brain. It seems to be a hormone's hormone; when the blood carries it to the adrenal glands on the kidneys, it stimulates the production of many other hormones that regulate vital functions of the body, including proper utilization of foods. The natural substance is extremely expensive because only minute amounts can be extracted from the pituitary glands of slaughtered animals. Dr. Hofmann does not promise that his success will lead to cheap synthetic ACTH manufactured in large quantities for medical...
...which must provide a kind of spiritual charter by which all Americans can live together. It is "the constitutional consensus whereby the people acquires its identity as a people and the society is endowed with its vital form . . . its sense of purpose as a collectivity organized for action in history." To Murray, the civic consensus is constructed neither of psychological rationalizations nor of economic interests nor of purely pragmatic working hypotheses. "It is an ensemble of substantive truths, a structure of basic knowledge, an order of elementary affirmations that reflect realities inherent in the order of existence...
Describing the unification move as "vital," Leach nevertheless criticized the proposed elimination of the service secretaries for two reasons. In the first place, he pointed out, it would be wise to maintain the present system as long as the separate branches remain intact...