Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers and men of General Fu Tso-yi's command are among the best in China. Fifteen months ago, Fu's crack troops swept the Reds out of the vital North China outpost city of Kalgan. They turned with high morale to rebuilding the destruction left by the retreating Communists. But elsewhere in China, the war had gone badly. General Fu and some of his men had been called east to defend the Peiping area, thus reducing the defenses of Kalgan. In the outpost city a fortnight ago, a TIME correspondent found a solemn mood...
...Navy outfit should tax the local strength to its fullest extent. Such first-line performers as Ted Norris in the quarter-mile, Jerry Gorman in the 220, Captain Chuck Hoelzer in the breaststroke, and Tom Drohan in the dive should win; but whether the depth necessary to win the vital relays is forthcoming remains to be seen...
...Harvard Teachers Union yesterday vigorously protested the appointment of Burton K. Wheeler as head of the League for Political Education on the grounds that the former Democratic senator from Mentana is "unfit" to conduct an enterprise of such vital importance to the labor movement...
...regular session of the Congress. No proposal for aid to China has yet been submitted to the Congress by the Department of State. . . . The good faith of the Administration . . . is now in question. . . . Only the immediate submission to the Congress of a proposal for the protection of the vital interest of the American people in Chinese independence can create confidence . . . and give us an adequate opportunity to carefully consider an aid program. I should appreciate early word from...
...long as Communism remains as a menace to the free world, it is vital to the defense of freedom to maintain a preponderance of military strength on the side of freedom, and to secure that degree of unity among the nations which will ensure that they cannot be defeated and destroyed...