Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unilaterally to lessen and to overcome the danger of surprise attack." At his press conference two days later, President Eisenhower charged that the Soviet "fetish of secrecy and concealment ... is a major cause of international tension and uneasiness today." Under such circumstances, he said, espionage "is a distasteful but vital necessity...
Logic's Lesson. The Western summiteers were determined to make no real concession at all on Berlin. For Berlin has become both a symbol and a vital test of the West's determination to resist Communist encroachment against the free world. The legal foundation on which Western possession of the city rests is complex and to tamper with it is risky. As De Gaulle observed during his visit to Canada last month: "If we do not want an easing of tensions, then we can try for a solution in Berlin. But if we want an easing, we must...
...Yorker, what would become of the magazine after his death. "It will go its own goddam way, I guess," he replied. Ross was not quite right. Last week, nine years after his death from cancer, The New Yorker was still trying to go Ross's way. But one vital element was missing: the quality of editorial goddamishness that Ross himself gave the magazine...
Devil's Advocate. In Brisbane. Australia, the Christadelphian Church ran an ad in the Courier Mail: "A vital address on the possibility of obtaining Immorality will be given by Mr. A. C. Mogg...
...uniforms." Day of the game, gold and silver coins glutted the ticket office because "nobody used that dirty paper money." But when kickoff time came, there was nothing to kick off. A student had to be dispatched by street car to a nearby sporting-goods store to buy the vital prop of the spectacle: a ball. Still, it was a happy memory: Stanford...