Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's report leaned heavily on the secret testimony given three weeks ago by Lieut. General Leslie Groves, wartime chief of atomic development. General Groves was sure that Russia "and its misguided and traitorous domestic sympathizers or stooges" had tried hard to get vital atomic information. Had Russia been successful? Said General Groves: "I imagine that it was successful to a certain degree. You never know what the other fellow finds...
...simplest, deadliest kind of war ripeness occurs when two nations, having conflicting aims which each considers vital, arrive at a point of strength where each believes it can beat the other, and that it has more chance of winning if the war is not postponed...
...revival produces few of the well-remembered howls and wonderful aching bellylaughs. Never anything more than sheer slapstick with all the attendent pratfalls, squashed toppers, and skinned knees, "Bringing Up Baby" lacks the necessary speed of action and the vital, high caliber gags to carry it over the inevitable slow spots. It bogs and badly after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right...
...daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence in the case. He had reportedly made a record of all his conversations with Cissie Patterson. So the Times-Herald quickly got an order from the executrix, chartered a plane and flew two men to Clarksburg to get Porter's luggage...
Both the commuting and married-student changes were anticipated in the overall housing picture, Watson explained, but the extra Freshmen now make both factors vital inasmuch as their rooms would, in the past two years, have been available for the overflow newcomers...