Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozens, but still they came on. By 3 a.m. they had overrun two hilltop posts on the perimeter's north face, finishing off the Moroccan and Thai defenders with knives, bayonets, machetes, grenades. Within minutes the Viet Minh were putting mortar fire on Nasan's vital airstrip. Next day the attackers had backed off of one hill, and French paratroopers recaptured the other...
...political debts to two important groups of supporters: 1) the women; 2) Southern Democrats for Ike. For Federal Security Administrator he picked Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...
...would be exceedingly difficult, and any missiles that it might drop would be lucky to hit the-right country. The project, Rosen warns, would sop up most of the U.S. supply of qualified technical men. While they were aiming at space, the guided missile program-which military planners consider vital to U.S. safety-would grind to a halt...
...themselves we decry as much as the possibility they raise of the ROTC ultimately packing half the college (the units' present enrollment) into a tight social mold, with common ideals, tastes, attitudes, and loyalties. No aim could be more foreign to a place like Harvard, where diversity is a vital part of education...
Something new in the Advocate, an editorial, attacks a prime stigma of our generation--a lack of moral attitude. Although the high-blown writing obscures the argument at vital points, the blame appears to lie both with the university and the student "intellectual coterie." If the author considered all possible results of his conclusion (that the university stamp a common belief in the nature of ethical principles on the student) he might hesitate and frown a little more...