Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news nor the facilities to produce more than a weekly one. Consequently the News is the only possible outlet at Radcliffe for official notices, as well as being the only means--excepting the often inadequate Agassiz boxes--by which the whole college can receive information on current and vital Radcliffe topics...
With a string of notices posted two weeks ago on the walls of classrooms, Houses, and other vital centers, the Veterans Book Office has warned everybody about May 1. That is the deadline, they say, for turning in book authorizations for the Spring term. If a veteran wishes to be reimbursed for any purchases, his blanks have to be in Weld Hall before April leaves the Yard...
...Vital Statistics. Age: 58 (born Sept. 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, in a gingerbread Victorian house overlooking the Ohio River). Ancestry: eldest of the three children (two sons, one daughter) of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. and later Chief Justice; grandson of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard...
What happened in Italy in the days just ahead would answer one vital question: Can Communists capture a nation where there is neither Red army nor Red police? The result would decide whether Italy would take her place with Western Europe (and Western Union) or with the satellite East. And that decision, in turn, would affect the worldwide question of war & peace. For it was a simple fact that Italy formed a precarious bulge in the West's defenses: if this battle of the bulge were lost, Communism would stand at the Alps and reach deep into the Mediterranean...
Wifely curiosity soon got the better of Harriet. One night, she opened Desmond's briefcase and found a manuscript signed with his name. "With reference to Bureaux Instruction," she read, "... I appreciate the vital . . . importance to Soviet security of acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...