Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, is interested in East Asian sociology. "I find that it is hard for me to keep up with what is new in mainstream sociology, because I'm so busy keeping up on East Asian matters as well." Vogel notes that peripheral certainly doesn't mean bad. "The most vital, dynamic work is often around the periphery," he says...
...audience. If you took away the Din and Tonics, Debbie Allen's guest-star appearance, and President Bok's attendance among the crowd in Sanders Theater, what you had, simply, was a unique chance for students from minority backgrounds to express their place in the community as vital, contributing members; the proceeds from the event went to benefit local charities, not the minority groups involved...
...secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among the tangle of wires to locate and replace the dead component. To prevent rodents from nibbling at ENIAC and destroying vital parts, Eckert recalled at the anniversary party, the scientists captured some mice, starved them for several days and then fed them bits of the insulating materials used in the machine. Any pieces the mice seemed to favor were removed from ENIAC and replaced with less tasty parts...
Rare indeed is the mystery novelist who ages well. Agatha Christie lost her sense of humor, Dorothy Sayers her plot outlines, John le Carre his vital interest in the genre. But at 73, Julian Symons has just published perhaps his best mystery ever, a fiendish little puzzle that is elegantly written and pitilessly observed...
Union officials welcomed the resolution. "The help of the students is extremely vital," HUCTW organizer Kristine A. Rondeau said, "especially fighting Harvard...